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of immense value in forecas:ing the approach of tropical hurricanes. The 

 Cape Verde Islands are near what is considered as practically the hirthplace 

 of many of the tropical st )rms which sometimes sweep our South Atlantic and 

 Gulf coast. 



On the other side of the world, we also get a n\amt)er of observations 

 used to make up our wor'td-wide weather map. Ships following the Great Circle 

 route along the coast of Alaska to Japan and China send in reports. And of 

 course, we get report r, from Hawaii and Guam and the Phillipines. And a series 

 from Japan and this wsather service reaches even into the center of China. 



In fact, if ;-ou could glance at the chart as Mr. Haidle draws it each 

 day, you would see that we now have a practically complete weather map of the 

 Northern Hemisphere except for parts of northern Russia and Siberia. Of 

 course, a lot can happen to/storm moving across the vast stretches of the 

 Pacific, but Mr. Haidle tells me that observations made in the eastern Asia 

 often give our forecaster good tips as to what is coming our way in the way 

 of weather. 



As yov. know, the general movement of storms in the Northern Hemisphere 

 is usually from west to east. What is coming to the west of us is highly 

 important to our forecasters. And so it is with the nations of Europe, That 

 is one big reason our weather reports are so important to them. What we are 

 getting shows their forecasters what they may expect. Then too, many of the 

 countries of Europe are so small, it is necessarA-- that they have reports from 

 other countries in order to get an,y advance notice on storms at all. 



In regard to the weather, we are all neighbors. All nations find it 

 to their mutual advantage to be nei^borly and swap information on that very 

 vital subject, the weather. 



AN^TOUNCE^fflNT : Once every two weeks, this Station presents these 



chats with the weather man. The information comes direct from the United 

 States Department of Agriculture of which the United States Weather Bvireau 

 is a part. 



