It was hard to tell why this Pete Smith Specialty film short was called "Weather Wizards" as most of the story told the plight of the southern California Morgan Family trying to protect their orange grove from freezing temperatures moving in on a cold front from Alaska. To be fair, there was a decent amount of footage chronicling the work of meteorologists and on-air weather reporters, but it was almost comical to hear them referred to as heroes as if their lives were somehow on the line. A stronger case was made for the farmers who faced real life disaster if they couldn't save their crops with oil heaters spaced at one per every two trees approximating some fifty to an acre. It's a cinch the global warming crowd would have preferred to put these folks out of their misery rather than have them create the smoke and smog that filled the valley, impeding the very trucks the farmers relied on to bring in the oil in the first place. It reminded me of the plight of the California fruit growers today who can't bring in water to irrigate their land because it might subject a small species of fish to harm. Have we made more or less progress over the past seventy years?
Review of Weather Wizards
