POPULAR THEORY
i _g, WFATI.IFII IN N. AMFRIOA i/iwkindary soium 'f MI'.DICTNIv HAT. Albert 11, June 4. '['lie fame of -Medicine Hat, which .lias ..ill abundant supply a* its front door ol cheap natural gas, went around the world when Jludyard Kipling on a visit here, declared this fortunate town had “all hell for a basement.’ tip and down the North American continent it is the fashion to say, in cold and stonnv weather, that the. wind is blowing “straight, down from Aledtcine Hat.” .Modern meteorological science shows there is some ground lot this popular theory, because experts sa> it is at this point that- what is called the. Continental I’olar Front, from (hr Yukon, meets the warmer l'aeitic Polar Front. Medicine Hat, then, is the place where the weather is mixed, lo How north and cast and west over the continent, and it is planned to establish here a modern -weather forecast bureau that will base its conclusions on observations taken by instruments thousands of feet in air—the system called mass atmospheric analysis.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18756, 12 July 1935, Page 10
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