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Your Quotes for 1 November 2005 - Weather

What we now know as the National Weather Service went into business on this day in 1870, although it was operated by the Army Signal Service Corps for the first twenty years. If you think weather forecasting is bad now, imagine it without Doppler radar, hurricane hunter aircraft, a century of previous data to refer to, or even telephones to call the next town to check on the approach of storms.

Weather is a great bluffer. I guess the same is true of our human society - things can look dark, then a break shows in the clouds, and all is changed.
     - Elwyn Brooks White, 1899 - 1985

If you want to see the sun shine, you have to weather the storm.
     - Frank Lane

The weather-cock on the church spire, though made of iron, would soon be broken by the storm-wind if it ... did not understand the noble art of turning to every wind.
     - Heinrich Heine, 1797 - 1856

Isn't it interesting that the same people who laugh at science fiction listen to weather forecasts and economists?
     - Kelvin Throop III

Don't knock the weather; nine-tenths of the people couldn't start a conversation if it didn't change once in a while.
     - Kin (Frank McKinney) Hubbard, 1868 - 1930

I'm leaving because the weather is too good. I hate London when it's not raining.
     - Julius Henry "Groucho" Marx, 1890 - 1977

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