Weather Break

Click here to listen to episode 509 of Weather Break.
Most of the interesting and severe weather that people care about is caused by rising motions in the atmosphere. Clouds, for example, are always regions where air is rising, and therefore so are thunderstorms and hurricanes and, well, pretty much anything exciting in the weather. [...]

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Click here to listen to episode 508 of Weather Break.
Yesterday on Weather Break we talked about the fact that many meteorologists get into this business because they are just the type of people who care about weather and get pretty excited about storms. Sometimes it sounds pretty cold or uncaring when a forecaster talks [...]

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Click here to listen to episode 463 of Weather Break.
Everybody, it seems, is interested in thundersnow. Questions about the basics and significance of thundersnow are easily the most commonly asked inquiries on Weather Break’s question hotline (302-258-1617). Today on Weather Break, Dr. Jon Schrage runs down what thundersnow is and when we can [...]

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Click here to listen to episode 374 of Weather Break
The Black Hills of western South Dakota are a great place to trigger thunderstorms in the late afternoon on warm summer days.  Isolated mountain ranges and plateaus form what meteorologists call “elevated heat sources” that efficiently use the heating of the day [...]

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Click here to listen to episode 341 of Weather Break
Most people who live in the Midwest and the Great Plain know from their own experiences that tornadoes and tornadic thunderstorms tend to move from the southwest to the northeast.  This is because these storms are steered by the large-scale weather features in [...]

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