How famers and crop dusters reimagined aerial pesticides in the late 1940s.
All tagged 1940s
G.I. Dinner, Christmas 1943
A tiny note fortuitously preserved reveals how food helped "Keep 'em Flying."
The Einstein of Meteorology?
"Rossby was legendary as a spellbinder. I went away thinking that meteorology was the most interesting and the most challenging field of science there was."
Weather Cartoons Unite Generations
A meteorologist learns from her Grandpa, and Navy cartoonists.
The Original Storm Named Maria, 1941
The original Maria wasn't real, but it changed how we talk about weather.
'Something Screwy': Hunting The Double Eye Hurricane, 1947
An illustrated first-hand account from inside a hurricane at 400 feet.
Silk Wind and Current Map, 1944
Climate data from Scripps and the Weather Bureau helped pilots evade capture during World War II.
Weather Cadet Generation: William H. Rehnquist
This future Chief Justice took a curious lesson from World War II.
Weather Cadet Generation: Maud E. Greenwood
After sexism drove this artist/scientist out of meteorology, she became a medical illustrator and professor of anatomy.
The Weather Cadet Generation: Clifton Hillegass
From meteorologist to student savior.
Meet the Weather Cadet Generation
Introducing a series on remarkable people who learned meteorology during World War II.
POW Meteorology: Hong Kong, 1941-45
These prisoners kept weather records on cigarette wrappers.
The Path of History, 1943
Does meteorology lead inevitably to weather control?
Test Able, 1946
Meet the meteorological artist who interpreted the Bomb.