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450th Bombardment Group

The 450th contributed to the intensive Allied campaign against the enemy aircraft industry during Big Week (20–25 February 1944) by attacking factories at Steyr and Regensburg, being awarded a Distinguished Unit Citation (DUC) for braving the hazards of bad weather, enemy fighters, and flak to bombard a Messerschmitt aircraft manufacturing factory at Regensburg on 25 February.

Abel Korzeniowski

He is a composer of film scores for several Polish films: Big Animal, Tomorrow's Weather, An Angel in Krakow, as well as Hollywood productions: Battle for Terra, Pu-239, Tickling Leo, A Single Man and W.E..

AIRS

Atmospheric Infrared Sounder, a weather and climate instrument flying on NASA’s Aqua satellite

Allen Lee

Jonathan Dimbleby described him as a "weather vane" in his book The Last Governor.

Arlöv

The former office building of Danisco Sugar was bought in 2008 by the Church of Scientology who opened their new church, a so-called "Ideal org" there in 2009.

BESK

The first calculations were done on April 1, 1954 and BESK handled weather data for Carl-Gustaf Rossby and the Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute, statistics for the telecommunications service provider Televerket, wing profiles for the attack aircraft Saab Lansen, and road profiles for the road authority Vägverket.

BluegrassReport.org

The blog, which further covers ongoing intra-party operations, political issues and scandals, was started in June 2005 by Democratic consultant Mark Nickolas, former campaign manager for both Speaker of the Kentucky House Jody Richards and U.S. House Rep. Ben Chandler's 2003 gubernatorial campaign.

Camp Nelson Civil War Heritage Park

When Union Major General Ambrose Burnside attacked the Cumberland Gap and Knoxville, Tennessee, Camp Nelson's distance from the Gap and Knoxville, combined with lack of railroads and the weather, hampered the Union advance.

CFBN

The station, owned by the Greater Toronto Airports Authority, aired a business news format syndicated from Canada's Business Network, as well as some travel and weather information reports for Toronto Pearson International Airport.

Chad Myers

Piers Morgan, as well as Wolf Blitzer, called him the best in the business for covering severe weather.

Charles E. Anderson

Upon finishing, he was stationed in Tuskegee, Alabama where he was assigned as a weather officer for the 332nd Fighter Group now known as the Tuskegee Airmen.

CITY-DT

Frank Ferragine - weather specialist; Breakfast Television (weekday mornings, 5:30-9 a.m.), also gardening specialist

Clayton Williams

During the campaign, Williams publicly made a joke likening rape to bad weather, having stated: "If it's inevitable, just relax and enjoy it" (the statement had previously caused controversy amongst women's groups over the same statement by basketball coach Bob Knight, and caused WABC-TV weatherman Tex Antoine to be fired after saying that sentence, ironically, on a weather report after a story about a child rape).

Clean Energy Bank

These two bills received bipartisan support and have been endorsed by the US Chamber of Commerce, Google.org and the Solar Energy Industry Association (SEIA).

Codename Mike

In November 2009, Benny Marchant recorded his debut album "Cold Weather" with producer Joe Chiccarelli.

Dobera glabra

It is well known to the local Konso people (who call it karsata) for growing new shoots, flowers, and seeds during dry weather.

Dresba

It was intended to be a strategic bomber air base along the shore of the Arctic Ocean, giving it access to northern resupply ship routes, and was presumably for either forward deployment or weather diversion for the Soviet Union's Tupolev Tu-95 and Tupolev Tu-22 bomber force.

E. R. Dodds

He had heard of the attempt to land an aircraft on Helvellyn earlier that month, but the flyers John F. Leeming and Bert Hinkler had been delayed by weather and mechanic problems.

Edwin Cameron

He is the general secretary of the Rhodes Scholarships in Southern Africa (www.rhodestrust.org.za) and is a patron of the Oxford University Commonwealth Law Journal.

HKO

Hong Kong Observatory, the official weather forecast authority and meteorological agency of Hong Kong.

HSWN

Homeland Security Weatherbug Network, a joint collaboration between the National Weather Service and the creators of the Weatherbug program that encompasses about 8,000 weather stations in the United States.

James Lance

Additionally he played the character of Mr. Hugo in the pilot episode of Biffovision, as well as featuring alongside Mark Heap and Tim Key in another Paul Rose-penned pilot, "Now The Weather".

Kafila

Kafila.org is a group blog where members post opinions on current affairs, mostly related to India.

Kano air disaster

Bad weather at Lagos caused the crew to divert to Kano though the Airport there was experiencing high winds at the time.

Local insertion

Local insertion on cable television is used especially on The Weather Channel in the U.S. and The Weather Network/MétéoMédia in Canada, where systems like the WeatherSTAR, IntelliSTAR and PMX have been used to show local weather forecasts (known as "Local on the 8s" on The Weather Channel in the U.S.) every ten minutes, and well as the lower display line (LDL) or lower-third graphic that is shown at other times.

Lukla

Weather permitting, twin-engined Dornier and Twin Otters make frequent daylight flights between Lukla and Kathmandu.

MIRIAM Registry

The URL form is directly resolvable, and relies on a resolving layer provided by Identifiers.org.

Nordeste Linhas Aéreas Regionais

3 February 1992: an Embraer EMB 110 Bandeirante registration PT-TBB operating flight 92 from Salvador da Bahia to Guanambi, descended below minimum levels in bad weather and crashed on a hill hidden by clouds near Caetité.

Novaci, Romania

From this place is a view of the Parângu Mare peak and when the weather is good you can see the Peleaga peak of Retezat Mountains.

Ohio University

The College Green features Galbreath Chapel, the spire of which, topped with a brass weather vane, is modeled after that of the portico of Nash's All Souls Church in London.

Opnode

Being a low-cost technology, 1-Wire is widely used in home automation, mainly for temperature monitoring and also to build home weather stations.

Piper PA-24 Comanche

Country music singers Patsy Cline, "Cowboy" Lloyd Copas and Hawkshaw Hawkins were on board a Comanche owned and piloted by Cline's manager, Randy Hughes, when it crashed in deteriorating weather near Camden, Tennessee on March 5, 1963, killing all on board.

Pleurotus sajor-caju

Some warm weather varieties of Pleurotus pulmonarius, a commonly cultivated species of Oyster Mushroom, often incorrectly called Pleurotus sajor-caju

QTQ

QTQ-9's nightly news program is Nine News Queensland, presented on weeknights by Andrew Lofthouse and Melissa Downes, with Wally Lewis presenting sport, and Garry Youngberry presenting the weather.

Remote Automated Weather Station

The Remote Automated Weather Stations (RAWS) system is a network of weather stations run by the U.S. Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management and monitored by the National Interagency Fire Center, mainly to observe potential wildfire conditions.

Repubblica Radio TV

Born on April 10, 2006, during the Italian general election, broadcast news and weather bulletins and political programs from 10.00 AM to 12.00 AM and repeats from 9.00 PM to 12.00 PM, Monday to Friday.

Rob Gell

Moving to the Nine Network in 1988, Gell was innovative as a designer and producer of television weather presentations for 15 years until 2003, when he was replaced by Livinia Nixon.

South Wales, New York

WGRZ's broadcast tower and in-house weather radar are based in the hamlet.

Sticky content

Examples of sticky content include the following: Chat room, Online forum, Webmail, Internet games, Weather, News, Horoscopes, and much more.

Stv.tv

The website currently offers the usual sections of News, Sport, Entertainment, Weather, Competitions, Forums and STV programme information, with TV listings.

Television set

Some high-end TVs have Ethernet ports to receive information from the Internet, like stocks, weather, or news.

The Chemist

The Chemist (user) a known user on punknews.org or orgsummit.com, known for his obsession with Lagwagon.

The Nature Discovery Centre

Sedum roof reducing the need for heating in cold weather and cooling in hot weather.

The News at Bedtime

The other main contributors to the programme are Mary Mary, the Contrary Correspondent who reports live from news stories; Peter Rabbi who presents the Thought for the Day religious slot; and weather reporter Dilly Dilly.

Tornado watch

:See Severe weather terminology for a comprehensive article on related weather terms.

Van Allen Probes

The Van Allen radiation belts swell and shrink over time as part of a much larger space weather system driven by energy and material that erupt off the Sun's surface and fill the entire Solar System.

West Park, Wolverhampton

Its opening, by the Duke of Connaught, was received with hopeful enthusiasm, unfortunately not matched by the weather, which contributed to a £30,000 loss, equivalent to nearly £2M at today's value.

WWG91

WWG91 (sometimes referred to as Sheboygan All Hazards) is a NOAA Weather Radio station that serves Sheboygan and Manitowoc-Two Rivers, Wisconsin, broadcasting at 162.525 MHz (Channel 6 on most S.A.M.E-equipped and current model weather radios).

X.Org Foundation

The modern X.Org Foundation came into being when the body that oversaw X standards and published the official reference implementation joined forces with former XFree86 developers.

Yordenis Ugás

" Later Ugás beat Russian Khabib Allakhverdiyev and in the final he outfought Romal Amanov from Azerbaidjan. Cubanet.org writes "Yordenis Ugas, a sharp, technically accomplished fighter but with a suspect jaw, won the lightweight gold for Cuba after an explosive toe-to-toe clash with Romal Amanov of Azerbaijan.


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Daniel Bender

Bender was a restaurateur (Daniel's Bistro in Ojai, California) from 2002-2004, and continues to be the owner of Weather.org.