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4.7 “Weather Superstitions and Fallacies” (adapted from barber, an illustrated
outline of weather science)

and means that while the one area is getting the kind of weather it wants, another
region is subject to unfavorable weather. . . . Political parties develop on the basis
of these differences, and “pressure groups” attempt to control the WDA (Weather
Distributing Administration). Soon other nations attempt to manipulate the
weather. International complications begin and the human masses of the world are
plunged into a war for the control of the air masses. 55

Representative of the attitudes of the era was Charles William Barber’s 1943
illustration of the curtain of “weather superstitions and fallacies” being drawn
aside to reveal the progressive path of weather science leading to its ultimate
goals (figure 4.7). Perhaps, however, accurate long-range forecasting and weather
control are the real weather superstitions and fallacies.

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