Bradley beam., 1945-02-17
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LIT. J. H. ALGER.

 were the lucky recipients of free trip to MT in Cambridge, in ex- change for a few hours of their undivided attention at purely academic conference on latest weather topics, gives another mem Der of our frazzled and shopworn forecasters an opportunity to take typewriter in hand and write about latest doings of the weather gang and Sundry other topics. In fact "sundry other topics" sounds like it would make a really interesting piece of reading this week. There fore, since everybody outside the Weather Station seems to be in terested only in the bare super facilities of weather, such as the overused question "when the h. is it going to stop showing" ?" or the equally overused 'when is it going to start snowing?" this writer is going to take on himself the liber ty of expressing his views and those of, oh so many other mem bers of his harrassed colleagues, on little things done and expressed by you who "just dial 237" and ex- pect to hear the miracle of the age.
 Why are pilots so darn different from everybody else? Why can't they be satisfied with the prevail ing weather conditions, instead of coming into the Station on beau tiful sunny day, glaring at the forecaster, blasting blasting him out with string of unprintable quotations, and screaming "When are you going to get some bad weather in here so that I can hit the sack for a change?" Two days later: place, Weather Station; time, four hours after snow storm has started, characters: same pilot, same forecaster, action: Pilot blast ing forecaster with string of un- printable quotations and screaming "When the devil are you going to stop this bowling blizzard? 1 got date in Hartford tonight and, brother, Gin softer tone) I just gotta get there!"
 Then there is the little school teacher type Wac, who is clerk in somebody's office, far removed from the flight line, and who calls us at two minutes before 170O and wants to know whether the Major should wear his overshoes tomor- row, or will the mud puddles freeze up sufficiently so that he won't need them. What else can we do but say wrong number" and quickly hang up?
 Who are those characters that call and give us the ratio of volume of alcohol in their radiator to it's total capacity and come up with the question: I be able to start my car in the morning?" They should know, of course, that we need more complete data than they have given us, namely, the make and year of their car, motor serial number, and whether the spare tire is carried inside or on rack in the rear. The most i'm portant factor used in the tables we are computing for the present month is the number of times the right front tire has been recapped. These tables will be ready for use by the spring of 1946, so don't any body get smart before then.
 We are also busily employed in preparing a set of tables which give the mean depth of snow at any time of day, between any point on the Field and the coffee urn in the PIX. These tables are be- ing made chiefly for the benefit of personnel in Base Operations, who never get their eyes open far enough in the AM, before steaming their lids over a cup of coffee, to make their own observations. This set of data will be ready for peru