Bradley beam., 1945-02-10
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By T/Sgt. John T. McAllister

famed weather forecaster craWled out of his hole, saw his shadow against the snow in the bright sun light, and crawled back in again to sweat out six more weeks of win
 ter. To clear up all possibility of doubt, we are talking about the groundhog, not a member of our staff. Just how Groundhog Day got started no one knows. There is ab
 solutely no scientific basis to the supposition that if the little animal can't see his shadow winter is over and if lie can there's: six Weeks: to go. In fact there IS no reason to be-. Heve that he comes out, of his hole at all on the second of February. Would you? However, official watchers have testified that he all ways does emerge on that day and there are even pictures to prove it.. Probably the whole tradition originated when some student of statistics noticed that when ever the weather breaks early in February it is generally breather before a lot more stormy weather, but that mild, short win ters seldom have breaks at that time of year. Actually, whatever type of winter prevails it is highly coincidental whether or not the sun shines on February 2. This year the groundhog and the most learned meteorologists are in agreement though. Rough as this winter has been there's plenty more to go yet.
 OLD SAWS: Unlike the ground hog legend, most old wives tales and jingles about weather do have a firm basis in physical laws. "Red sky at night, sailors delight y True, because most storms move in from the west and if you can see the sun set there is no weather be- tween you and the horizon. Also atmospheric dust filters out the blue rays of the sun leaving only the red rays. A red sunset means the rays have come a long way through cloudless atmosphere = thus, the redder the sunset, the longer the period of good weather. Flowers smell sweeter before storm" True, because most storms are associated with low pressure areas and the decreased pressure of the atmosphere enables the fragrant gases to escape from the flowers more easily. Send us your favorite weather proverb for free analysis.
 STUDENTS: Three of our fore casters-Lt. Donald Alvin, S/Sgt. John Stigile, for your correspon- dent-will travel to the Massachu- sets Institute of Technology in Cambridge soon to attend weather conferences, and possibly few unofficial sea food dinners. Such conferences, we hasten to point out, are nothing like American Legion conventions. No indeed. They are much more like meetings of good old Trigonometry II in the south classroom. Aspirins are standard equipment at these sessions but are needed for mental, not abdomi nal complications.
 SOCIAL NOTES: S/Sgt. David Halt, who didn't go away any farther than Boston, was back for visit last weekend An old Bradley alumnus, S/Sgt. Harold s. Stanton, now a Westover forecaster who has felt and needed the call to take a long trip, dropped in to say goodbye. We'll be seeing him, but soon probably . Making one of his rare public appearances on this Base, S/Sgt. Ray Backus of AACS accompanied M/Sgt. John Lutz to the highly successful party at the Non-Coms Club Wednesday night. We got no report on Ray but we hear John had fine time and that his addition got the NBC scouts pretty excited It. James H. Gibbons, formerly of this station, hoI Iprrxr