Winter still here, weatherman says
Spring is here only in the minds of KU students, said Richard Garrett, meteorologist in charge of the Topeka Weather Bureau.
"Students may have decided that the past few days of warm temperatures signal the arrival of spring, but this conclusion is only psychological rationalization. In past years, cold weather has continued into the middle of April with only a few extended periods of warm weather." Garrett said.
ALTHOUGH THE U.S. Weather Bureau has not issued the next 30-day forecast, global weather studies indicate a probable continuation of cold weather with average amounts of precipitation.
This year northeast Kansas weather patterns have formed an island of calm in a sea of storms, Garrett said.
"This winter and spring brought heavy snow storms to western Kansas, the northern plains, and many southern states; however, our area escaped the surrounding storms with only a few minor snow squalls," he said.
THE MOST PRONOUNCED weather feature this year has been the absence of heavy snowfalls and prolonged cold weather. In the Topeka area, which is representative of northeastern Kansas. Weather Bureau records show only two previous winters (1916-17 and 1922-23) with less precipitation through February than this year.
Precipitation for December through March is presently ahead
Finances halt centennial ball
Cancellation of the "100 Year Ball" was announced today by Bill Robinson, Great Bend junior and student body vice president. Robinson, chairman of the centennial ball committee, said that the ball "had been definitely cancelled for financial reasons."
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of last year's amount. Temperatures for 1965 are also considerably warmer than those of the 1964-65 winter-spring season. However for March, the Weather Bureau has recorded only traces of precipitation. December, 1965 produced the heaviest amount of precipitation with 2.46 inches.
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Garrett emphasized that dry winters do not indicate a weather trend. This year's dry weather and warm temperatures are merely a continuation of yearly wet-to-dry and cold-to-warm cycles. The recent alternation of cold and warm weather is not an unusual phenomenon.
Daily Kansan
Tuesday, March 15, 1966
The role of the federal government in the petroleum industry will be the topic of the feature address at a meeting tomorrow of the KU chapter of the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical and Petroleum Engineers at 7:30 p.m. in the Kansas Union. Jerome J. O'Brien, manager of the petroleum department of the
Discuss government role in petroleum
Union Bank in Los Angeles, Calif., will deliver the address. He has worked as a surveyor, geologist and consulting engineer.
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