[HN Gopher] WW2 Meteorology
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WW2 Meteorology
Author : binarymax
Score : 62 points
Date : 2023-07-13 16:25 UTC (6 hours ago)
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| falsenapkin wrote:
| This is very interesting but, and I'm afraid this might be off
| topic and pedantic, I had to stop reading because Words, maybe
| only Nouns, were frequently Cased and _Bolded_ (does bold
| formatting exist on HN?) which made it very hard for Me to Read
| and Parse as I kept thinking Things were Proper Names or Titles.
| Is there a Reason for this Style that I am ignorant of?
| 7373737373 wrote:
| I found this very annoying too, and thought these were links at
| first. It can be fixed with: Array.from(documen
| t.getElementsByTagName("strong")).forEach(strong =>
| strong.style = "font-weight: normal;")
|
| in the developer console
| 867-5309 wrote:
| ..when consuming from a desktop browser
| mksybr wrote:
| paste it with a prepended JavaScript: into the URL bar.
| lukasb wrote:
| Had no idea it was that easy to run arbitrary JavaScript
| on a mobile web browser. Thanks.
| mig39 wrote:
| The German side was also starved for weather data. And since
| weather tends to flow West to East over the Atlantic, they were
| even more disadvantaged.
|
| Interesting solution was un-manned, automated weather stations
| like this one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weather_Station_Kurt
| -- installed secretly by U-Boat on Labrador's north coast. It was
| re-discovered in 1977!
| mighmi wrote:
| Himmler et al. were believers in the World Ice Theory, championed
| by Scultetus in the SS. His popularity oscilated but at various
| points they were trying to use his ideas to predict the weather.
|
| The basic idea of the World Ice Theory is that a star filled with
| water crashed into our sun, exploding and spewing out water,
| hydrogen and such, which froze and coalesced into planets. Many
| of these planets impacted the Earth, leading to different types
| of rock formations (because rocks are made of ice, explosions
| changed the soil composition like during periods of greater
| volcanic activity or or or... subtheories abounded.) Noah's flood
| was caused by such an ice planet turning into hail in the
| atmosphere.
|
| Tangentially, the Nazis also sent a few meteorological and
| astronomical teams hoping to see the other side of the Earth
| according to the hollow Earth theory.
| avar wrote:
| I've rarely seen it referred to as "WW2", as opposed to "WWII",
| but apparently it's been in relatively rare but consistent use in
| English [1] for a long time.
|
| Tweaking the query reveals that it's relatively more common in
| British English than English overall, although "WWII" is more
| common there overall as well.
|
| 1.
| https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=WWII%2CWW2%2CW...
|
| 2.
| https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=WWII%2CWW2%2CW...
| chrisdhoover wrote:
| God damn it all to hell and back I miss my old man. He joined the
| Army Air Corps and was stationed in Brazil. He flew in B25s on
| weather missions across the Atlantic to North Africa.
|
| After the war he worked for the weather service which morphed
| into NOAA.
|
| He had satellite images transmitted on Alden fax machines of the
| naval buildup around Cuba during the missile crises. The FBI
| interviewed him- ur uh threatened him on national security
| grounds.
|
| He met my mom at Homestead air base in south FLA. my maternal
| side. all fought in WW2 as well.
|
| It seemed everyone contributed a little. It was clear who was
| right and who was wrong. Those distinctions are less clear these
| days
| lostlogin wrote:
| > It was clear who was right and who was wrong
|
| I think depended on which side you were on, as it wasn't always
| simple. I'm sure many of those on the wrong side didn't see it
| how you do.
|
| Follow Russia's course through the war, or France (keeping in
| mind that the Vichy existed). There were factions all over the
| place and simplifying it down to right/wrong is too simplistic.
| irrational wrote:
| My grandfather was a meteorologist stationed in the Pacific
| during WWII. He claimed that he was asked for a weather report
| for Hiroshima for the day the first bomb was dropped. He didn't
| know why they wanted the weather report. He also claimed he saw
| either the Enola Gay or a decoy on his island before the bomb was
| dropped. I never knew him to lie about anything else, so maybe he
| was telling the truth.
| mhh__ wrote:
| The flights had secondary targets e.g. Kokura was saved by the
| weather (leading to the bombing of Nagasaki)
| gumby wrote:
| I wonder if this was the inspiration for the UK side story about
| "Qwghlm" in Cryptonomicon
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