European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 22, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                He year began with Batard of Supert Lver among jew Winters i history in the East driest in the people frolic in  in ran in bears sweated in in with Winter emerge idea natural Gas record crops and swimming pools Many americans Haw settled into the air conditioned co Coons of More oblivious than Ever to the Vagar ies of weather have had Lime to soberly reassess the shrill pronouncements of their consensus the weather was just a bizarre and worrisome As they sold it More it still the United and much of the is Piper Tenor big some of weather of Urce Muryce mile and National Security increasingly Tow words hot and wettest Are sprinkled daily in world weather re and their effect con water consumption and even Sofia unrest Pecoro Mattera of Dayto dby scrutiny by several Federal the concerned with the National Security implications of global weather induced crop has launched a major cell rata it tidy in Hopes  weather extremes and possible economic and social Dis through uie year several int emotional have full Lima  have National oceanic and and muffs Trats Noaa and the is fists have stepped up National and worldwide climate re search Halo data within the last year or the Effort has just Mush said Mah Lour Bead of the virion of the Center for Simatic and environmental assessment in formed As a part of Noaa to november and argue Over whether the cd male is undergoing a major whether the Earth u getting colder if Mort of them now that after several decades of unusually stable and gentle weather during which Modem apiculture developed and population burgeoned in planet has entered a period of weather nobody contradicts any More that we rein a period of greater weather said Norton director of the Noaa assessment Branch in there is a let of new interest because we Donl have the safety margins of Idle crop fewer and new technology coming on Stream that a used to the major extreme in the United states at the moment is h extends Over 30 per cent of the country and is the Grain Bell has been largely spared so water which began in Isnow commonplace throughout the has spread into and has started As far East As North is nabs and starved of subsurface Are willing and dying in patches around the nearly three fourths of the nations Rivers Are flowing below according to the geological in 10 they Are at record tows for the now fakes of Southern Florida Las january they were even spoiled in toe 9ahamas have been replaced by extremely hot temperatures during july Over much of the after one of their coldest Springs Oil Greece and Turkey recorded what they said were highs of snore than 120 degrees in you glib be a meteorologist in the special projects office of the environmental data service in compiles a weekly report of the worlds abnormal for the past several he unusually High temperatures have been recorded Over much of the Northern Northern which went through a severe drought last went through one of its coldest ant wettest Springs on record this northeastern India has been getting two or three times its Normal rainfall the past three months because of an unprecedented Low pressure Block he Southern China and Southeast Asia Are pulling but of a severe Winter drought with abundant Monsoon but crops Are continuing to parch in much of the especially and Southern puerto in terms of the United states seems to have july 1977 t j t c everybody said be comic its enormous and Iti 1 not of Naomd a Eaher is he to anything is unusual at the its Bow abnormally Good weather is Over the worlds major Spring wheat Russia wheat Region u enor Moos West of the the weather is just wonderful he cautioned that unusually Good weather one your could be just As unusually bad the next a whats causing the extremes explanations Center around changes in upper atmosphere circulation Pat normally the winds go around the  Man or less West to task Wutz a Latte Wavelike motions and said James with the Long Range prediction group or the National weather this past the North South movement was much greater than usual because of a persistent High pressure Ridge off the West this pattern brought a lot of dry air Down from Canada and it did not allow very much warm Motet air to come up from the Gulf of so the result was a dry cold Winter read a Sumalo Logist at the University of said that during be past several the West East circulation pattern dipped Only the air didst move very far South w so youd have a couple of Days of Cool and a couple of Days of he for the part couple o we have been having enormous Nort Wuth wac during cold air All the Way from the Arctic into and a Riff air from the tropics up to Why the or Titi by f b Quela Asonat nobody knows Tor i enclose by citral changes la solar twi in in elliptical Merpi of the Mruki in  of Ether Tad to volcanic some assert that mans pollution May be re some laymen believe Are secret  the weather to a kind of climatic some and meteorologists remain sceptical about just How bizarre the current extremes Are com pared to previous they note that temperature re cords Are routinely broken each year during various months and in various the stars and stripes Page 13