> >> The Weatherball (What did the colors mean?)
I believe Andy Driscoll has these correct here:
>The Weatherball (of Northwestern National Bank):
>
>When the Weatherball is red, warmer weather is ahead;
>When the Weatherball is white, colder weather is in sight;
>When the Weatherball is green, no change in weather is foreseen.
>When the Weatherball is blinking (red, green or white) precipitation is
>expected.
But he's missing one:
When the Weatherball is steady black, warning, nuclear attack.
(Of course, that was never an official one -- just a semi-joke,
semi-serious line told by insiders at NWNB during the midst of the cold
war, back when compaines like Univac & Control Data & people like Seymour
Cray had the Twin Cities fairly high on the Soviet Union's strike list.)
And I believe the Weatherball isn't really gone; just moved to St. Paul. I
thought it was donated to the Mn State Fair to be put on display
there. But Norwest only donated the equipment, not any funds to rebuild &
install it, and the Fair Board declined to spend their funds on something
that they felt would be mainly an advertisement for Norwest. So, as I
understand it, the Weatherball is still sitting in storage somewhere on the
Fairgrounds in St. Paul (possibly tucked away in the basement under the
cattle barn?).
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