Abstract

A specialized weather service tailored to the needs of agriculture in nine areas of the United States is being provided by the Weather Bureau. The four-phase program of ( a) data collection, ( b) forecasting, ( c) research and ( d) communications is carried on by the Weather Bureau with the cooperation of agriculture-related business, agricultural experiment stations and the Agricultural Extension Service. The nine areas of the country involved in the specialized weather service program, shown in Fig. 1, are: (1) New Jersey. (2) An area including northern Virginia, northeastern West Virginia, western and central Maryland and south-central Pennsylvania. (3) South Carolina. (4) Tri-State area which includes southern Georgia, southeast Alabama and northwest Florida. (S) Mid-South which includes northern Mississippi, western Tennessee, Arkansas, Louisiana delta, and the bootheel of Missouri. (6) Lower Rio Grande Valley of Texas. (7) Western Lower Michigan. (8) Southern Idaho. (9) Oregon.

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