T o.oo p OBRR Ce : vier ‘ ca r vw TPHOTO pauaan wevcxervenon oo BARODA.WEL ce SRE entative conducting -s- meeting” y~ Public Health Bervies repres Las Vegas. 36 8 part of an extensive : acs roy . > Hin one of the Ines] homes in Test Site.”"3 ‘educations! pregram around the Neyada BL an ¥A] wot & a , Weother Predictions started in 1456 The Weather Bureau Research Station was Test Site. to study intensively the meterology of the Nevada meproviding for responsible became station the 1967 In late Prior to these tests, weapons nuclear for support terological dates this function was performed by the Air Weather Service at the Neof the U.S. Air Force. The Weather Bureau station inforvada Test Site received all of the atmospheric sounding on the mation taken every six hours by the stations shown weather map (fig. 11), and most of the hourly and six-hourly Canada, information produced in the entire United States, were Mexico and eastern Pacific Ocean, In addition, there and are some 26 wind, 20 temperature, and 18 precipitation measuring stations located on the Test Site. Ten of the wins! and three of the temperature stations that reflect major terruin effects at and near the Nevada Test Site provided telem- fol etered information for use just prior to and immediately lowing each nucleur detonation 36 ™), 4 Pioyes H.-U.8. Weather Buresu stations fugnish informalicn every on poure for furecasting purposes. v. The Mercury Weather Station made a daily atl of the weather conditions over the Neva:ia Test Bite and civirens, using all availal.ce local information and reevaluatiny onalyses furnished by means of facaimile from the National Jrlerulog- val, Center (NMC) at Suitland, Md. The latter Cooter proc a}