The son of an immigrant carworker in Detroit, he had become an air cadet at the age of 17 and then a member of the army air forces, in which he trained as a meteorologist.
Suppose every sensor gives perfectly accurate readings of temperature, pressure, humidity, and any other quantity a meteorologist would want.
再假定每个传感器都极极端准确地读出了温度、气压、温度和气象学家需要的任何其他数据。
But meteorologist David Beachler from the National Weather Service says not to worry.
但是国家气象局的气象专家大卫·贝赤勒表示并不需要担心。
By e-mail and earphone, he confers with Jack Parrish, chief meteorologist, and they order the NOAA technician to slip a dropsonde into the shoot.
通过电子邮件和耳机，他与首席气象学家杰克·帕里什联络，指挥NOAA的技术人员发射下投式探空仪。
"This is probably one of the worst storms since 1990," a meteorologist in Seattle said.
西雅图气象专家表示，这也许是自1990年以来最严重的暴风雪。
At the time, he noted that "One meteorologist remarked that if the theory were correct, one flap of a seagull's wings could change the course of weather forever".
