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‘visiting his daughter Velda in Terrace withhiswife Ramona. |

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Tina Hodges borrowed Silver to. watch the gymkhana on

"Sunday. Silver seems unimpressed but. maybe he's a

storing his energy for his next event...

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laurie Muller successtully spears each ring Ina gymkhana at the
‘Lions Park Arenaon Sunday. Laurie was riding her horse Tsena .

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Kim Smith spent her Sunday affernoon bullding a “bridge”’ .
and hada great time getting good and grubby.

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seminated. to

points © piciure from each of these
throughout the. world from 1

VANCOUVER: (CP) — people, including 27
computers. and

“pli

Weather forecasters are the
people we love to hate — the
culprits who -spoll picnics,
rain on parades, cause

Ii games to be can-
celled and make car tires
‘feel square in winter.

But weathermen say
they're victims of the shaot-
the-messenger syndrome.
They insist they don’t being
the weather, they only

et it. .
. And predicting is a com-
cated process.

second forecast heard on
radio results. from ‘hours of
preparation that could have
begun: as far away as
Moscow. _

_ B.'s nerve centre for
- weather is the Atmospheric

Environment Serviée branch :

in Vanheouver Where 50

. The 15.

meteorologists, keep the *
- office going 24 hours a day, -
_peven days a week. .
yo comes to
weather, this part of the

“When it

world is as tough as.any to
predict,” “says. ‘Frank
Williams, chief of weather
services. for the Pacific
region. .

Willams has been in the

business for’ 30 years,
eyen with that kind of ex-
perience concedes that
mistakes are.-an oc-
cupational hazard. .
; Forecasting the weather,
‘he says, depends pritnarily
on flow
pressure systems)” and
moisture patterns (rain and
snow),

Flow. patterns are dis-

A

patiertis (wind and”

one of three meteorological

centres, Washington, D.C.,

‘Moscow and Melbourne,

“Australia, which .are fed by
35,000 observation stations.

around the world.
For example, a British
weather would go the

_ national | meteorological

centre at Bracknell near
London then to” Moscow,
Washington and finally to a
computer in Canada's tme-
teorological centre in
Montreal. .
The Montreal computers
and two in Washington take
collected world data and
produce a three-dimersional
picture of atmospheric
movement, from which
projections are made, The
Vancouver office receives a

* humans.

‘meteorologists must choose

the ‘one they think most
accurate. }

“These models do not give
100 «per cent accurate
solutions,” said Williams.
“Sometimes none of the
solutions ig right.”

Hence weathermen are
frequently the object of
acorn from their fellow

the moisture pattern is
harder to predict. The
constant

forecasters to predict only 36
hours ahead, making. the
margin for error in an ex-
tended forecast that much

greater. ;
The Geostationary

Satellite, located 36,000

_ airline pilots

growth and
dissipation of clouds allows

‘cloud formations every 30
“minutes; ‘These -dre tran: ;

amitted to Vaneoliver by a
computer off the “Virginia
coasl. oo

in addition, meteorologists
receive reports [romr
Canadian observation
stalions, lighthouses and
who report
weather conditions along
their flight paths..

All this Information is.then
synthesized into a moisture ,
pattern superimposed ‘over
the flow pattern.

Predicting lemperalure is
a spin-off. of these
procedures. Meteorologists
correlate the information
into a general forecast for
the province. Te

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Successtyl applicant will have general main:
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background or equivalent security franing.

Hoursof workwill be 7:00 p.m. to3:00 8.m. Must
also have the ability to deal tactfully with the
general public. . . ‘

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Terrace, B.C.
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