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RELEASE Friday. May 1. 1931 , 



AI'T^IOUIICSl/IENT ; And now for our chat with the weather man J leather is a 



subject that's always fresh as fresh as the dew on a "bright May morning 



Let's listen to what our old friend Oh. Server has to say ahout the work 



of the United States Weather Bureau and other v/eatlier services around 



this old world of ours Tell, Mr, Oh. Server? 



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I guess .uost all of us have swapped weatl'er talk with the neigh "bors 

 at one tine or another. 



That's what I want to talk about; swap'ping weather reports. 



I venture to say a lot of ^'ou traded observations on the weather this 

 morning. I^'be j'-ou ran across a friend from another part of the county, and 

 compared notes on the weather. Or raa3/be it^/wi?h yo-ur next door nei^ibor, 



Well, from what Mr. A. J. Haidle, of the forecast division of the 

 United States Teather Bureau tells me, nations do soiT.ething of the same sort. 

 Only it is not casual exchange of information, at odd tirfics, in chance encount- 

 ers, as it is with most of us. Nations swap weather talk with nei^ibor nations 

 as a regular thing over;,'- day and in a systeriatic way. Tlic United States, for 

 instance, gives other nations the reports on our conditions, and we ^^t their 

 reports in return. In that way, we get weather observations every daj' from 

 all around the v/orld. 



Everv' day, l^r, Haidle draws a weather map of the entire ITorthorn half 

 of the world based on our observations and those we get from other cO'jntries 

 by cable and radio. And on this subject of weather, nations are vei~; nei^i- 

 borl.y. Each helps the other and is in t-arn helped by the wcat'\er information 

 it gets, in return. Wliile o^or './eather Bureau prepares tliis world-wide map 

 from which our forecaster interprets the general weather outlook in this 

 country for a week ahead, other weather services sire making similar maps of 

 world wea-ther conditions for their forecasters. 



For inst^ce, lAr. Kaidle showed me the map he "/lad made on a certain 

 day on the basis of reports from this and other countries. We then looked 



