United States Weather Bureau - 2023 ACF Nationals

Question

Mark Walrod Harrington was the first civilian head of this organization, where he built upon the work of Cleveland Abbe (“ab-ee”). For 10 points each:

[10h] Name this organization that unconventionally began to employ pilots like Joe Duckworth after World War II as part of an alliterative two-word squadron.

ANSWER: United States Weather Bureau [accept National Weather Service or NWS; prompt on National Hurricane Research Project or NHRP] (The “Hurricane Hunters” tried to seed hurricanes with silver iodide as part of Project Stormfury.)

[10m] The Weather Bureau lost credence with the American public after failing to foresee this 1900 disaster that killed around eight thousand people and devastated a city known as the “Wall Street of the Southwest.”

ANSWER: Galveston Hurricane [or Galveston Flood; or 1900 Galveston Hurricane; prompt on Great Storm of 1900]

[10e] The Weather Bureau was slow to adopt thought from the Bergen School of meteorology because it was trying to explain this environmental disaster that damaged agriculture in the Great Plains in the 1930s.

ANSWER: Dust Bowl

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Summary


2023 ACF Nationals	04/22/2023	Y	20	18.00	100%	80%	0%

Data


Georgia Tech A	Chicago A	10	10	20
UC Berkeley B	Columbia B	0	10	10
Ohio State A	Florida A	10	10	20
Harvard A	MIT A	10	10	20
Columbia A	Indiana A	10	10	20
Maryland A	Chicago B	10	10	20
Vanderbilt A	Michigan A	10	10	20
Rutgers B	Minnesota B	10	10	20
NYU A	Florida B	0	10	10
Minnesota A	North Carolina A	10	10	20
Purdue A	Imperial A	10	10	20
Stanford A	Duke A	10	10	20
UC Berkeley A	Toronto A	0	10	10
WUSTL B	South Carolina A	10	10	20
Brown A	Yale A	10	10	20
Northwestern A	Chicago C	10	10	20
WUSTL A	Cornell A	10	10	20
Cornell B	Texas A	0	10	10
Johns Hopkins A	Houston A	10	10	20
Rutgers A	Illinois A	10	10	20