WEATHER

" Moonlight and Warmer " The official weather report said : "Moonlight and warmer." Was the U.S. Weather Bureau -- after 75 years of cautious cliches -- suffering a sudden May-madness? Dispatched to find out, Washington reporters met slight, affable Donald C. Cameron, 39, new chief forecaster for the Southeastern U.S. No whimsical amateur, but a Bureau veteran of 22 years, Weatherman Cameron knew exactly what he was about. He explained:"My idea is to humanize the forecasts. . . . People don't give a damn what degree of temperature is expected. The average person doesn't know what humidity is. They want to know how they're going to feel tomorrow. So this summer we intend to use phrases like 'fairly comfortable' and 'uncomfortable.' " Where another fore caster would rely on the standard "increasing cloudiness and warmer" (words to dampen the enthusiasm of any weekender), Mr. Cameron will carol: "A few light, puffy clouds . . . probably clear weather ahead." Another longtime wish which Weather man Cameron has not yet nerved himself to fulfill is to send the newspapers a daily post-mortem along the lines of "Uh huh, we told you it would rain yesterday, and it did," or "We said thunderstorms. Nothing much happened because a high-pressure area acted up at the very last minute."

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