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SPECIAL RAOBS DURING HURRICANES .
During the 1944 hurricane seaaon, the investigation of upper air conditions
in hurricanes will be continued by having designnted Weather
Bureau and Navy raob stations make special raobs during the passag(‘
of a hurricane. In addition, it is expected that eevc~al Army stntiotls
also will cooperate this year. The following Weather Bureau Htations
will participate:
Apalachicola, Fla. Lnke Chnrlo~, La.
Atlanta, Ga. Miami, Fla.
Brownsvillc, Tex. 8an Antonio, Tux.
Charleston, 8. C.
8tm Juan, Puerto Rico
Greensboro, N. C. . Swan Island, West Indics
Hatteras, N. C. Tampa, Fla.
Jackson, Mise. Washington, D. C.
Control of this project will be delegated to the Forecast Center CUP
reatly issuing hurricane advisories. However, the official in ‘chargca at
$an Juan hns been authorized to makespecial rnobs at his station if in
his judgment, a hurricane‘ is about to pass in tho vicinity of tho station
even though no instructions to begin mnking specinl mobs are rect!ived
by him from the Forecast Center.
TRANSFER OF SOLAR RADIATION SUPERVISORY STATION
Effective Jwly 1,1944, the Weather Burcau Solar Radiation SuperviRbrY
Station will be transferred from Blue Hill Observatory at Milton, Mass.,
to the Post Office Building in Boston, in quarters provided by tho UostoD
City Office.
The station at Blue €131 will remain a first-order Weather Bureau
Station, charged with making routine observations of solar and sky
radiation and special observations for research purposes whenever needed.
I Correspondence, reduction of observational and other office activi tic@
will be handled at tho Post Office Building, Bpecial solar radiation and
illumination observations will be made from the top of tho Post Ofice
13uilding for comparison with those made through the clearer atmosphere
at Blue Hill.
All correspondence with this station should be addrcswd : U. S. Weather
I3ureau, Solar Radiation Supervisory Station, 13oston 9, Mass.
CAA STATIONS TO WHICH WEATHER BUREAU EMPLOYEES ARE BEING
ASSIGNED
Plans for the amignmont of Weather Bureau personnel to take over
all or relieve CAA personncl 04 a portion of wcather observing duties at
@ffeyville, Kans., and Kirksville, Mo., have been changed. In lieu of
those stutions, Weather Rureau personnel have been msigned to Grand
Island, Nebr., and Vichy, Mo., effective May 15, and June 1, 1944, re’
spectivelg. Further details relative to this project may be found in tho
January and ’April 1944 iHsueR of TOPIC^ AND I’ICRHONNEI,.