University Daily Kansan, January 17, 1983
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Professional forecasters, farmers concur that winter's weather could remain mild
By WARREN BRIDGES Staff Reporter
Professional weather forecasters and local farmers agree that this winter's weather is unusually mild and may stay that way.
Joe Eagleman, KU professor of meteorology, said this winter's warm temperatures were the result of flow patterns of jet streams from the west.
Jet streams, Eagleton said, are streams of air approximately eight miles above the surface of the earth that push air from one region to another. Jet streams can be cold or warm, depending on where the streams originate.
He added, however, that jet stream patterns could change in as little as a
week, though changes normally take longer.
Because of the unusual pattern, the entire southern half of the nation has had unseasonably warm temperatures for this time of the year. Eaglerman
But John Banks, Route 5, a local farmer, said recently that he had his own methods of predicting the weather. He said the severity of a coming winter could be determined by the length of the hair on a dog's winter coat.
Banks said that he listened to television and radio forecasters, but that he didn't put much faith into their predictions.
"It's not their fault," Banks said. "They get fooled like everyone else. They just go by the way things look like. It's unfortunate that the miss so often
Banks said that this winter's unusually warm weather was fine for now, but that a snow would help farmers' wheat crops
on the moisture, though. Farmers need to know things like that."
“A lot of people don't know it, but “there's nitrogen in snow, and that's good for the wheat. A blanket of snow also allows moisture to get into it. You can't get too cold.” Banks said.
Banks farm his 60 acres in addition to holding down another job. "My crops are just a pastime for me. There's no real money in farming," he said.
Palp Tuckel, a neighbor of Banks, said the unusually warm temperatures were the result of changing seasons.
"I don't know if the weather really has set patterns. It's just so unpredictable," she said.
Tuckel also listens to forecasters, though she uses less scientific methods of determining the weather.
"Arthritis and playful cattle are the ways we predict the weather around here. When the cattle start running and jumping in the pasture, even the old dairy cows, you know there's going to be a wet weather, good or bad," Tuckel said.
Tuckel and her husband, Ernest, have lived in the Lawrence area for 41 years. They farm over 600 acres of wheat, corn and beans.
"Farming is all we know. It gets kind of bad sometimes." Tuckel said of the weather. "Last year it rained so hard and so often we couldn't get into the fields. This year has been different, but we'll get a cold spell. We always do."
Eagleman said that although forecasts could be made fairly accurately for up to five days, the pattern may change in response to a large effect on the following season.
The chairman of the 1983 KU Exploration Day said yesterday that he hoped to make the day a better experience for both the high school visitors and the campus sponsors.
Bricker hopes to make Exploration Day better
Clark Bricker, professor of chemistry, recently appointed chairman of the fourth annual event, which will offer about 1,000 high school students a chance to experience a life at KU for a day. Exploration Day is scheduled for April 20.
BRICKER SAID Exploration Day 1983 should be more organized than past Exploration Days. For the first time, all participants will gather in the morning for a briefing of the day's activities, he said.
The academic portion of the day, in which students meet professors and visit laboratories and classes, will be held entirely in the morning. Blocked rooms are also common, have complained in the past of long afternoon sessions, he said.
n sessions, he said.
Students will be free to spend the
afternoon visiting an engineering exposition also being held that day, museums or anything else on campus that interests them. Bricker said.
Bricker said he thought his title of chairman was misleading, because he was more a consultant, meeting with other faculty and staff members to add information to the day. The University. Relations office is organizing the event, he said.
Increased student and staff participation in Exploration Day will make the program more meaningful for high school visitors to KU, Bricker said. He urged interested faculty members to contact him or Carol Leffler of University Relations about participating in the program. Students will be contacted later about serving as guides during the day, he said.
BRUCKER SAID he hoped the activities planned for this year's event would be enjoyable for the visiting students, and might eventually decide to attend KU.
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