"[McKinley] figured it would be more effective and efficient to create weather on demand and test under controlled conditions at one-tenth the cost. In September 1943, the cold test program moved [from Alaska] to the easily accessible...Florida Gulf Coast"
"Most electrical [hardware] is happy when it's cold, not when it's hot."
"It can take...around 12 hours to drop the chamber's mercury to minus 40." - p65 Popular Science July '17
http://www.popsci.com/climate-lab-indoor-weather-testing
http://www.popsci.com/climate-lab-indoor-weather-testing
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