Weather Break

Click here to listen to episode 486 of Weather Break.
Recent research has suggested that lightning strikes are somewhat more frequent near busy roads than they are farther out in the countryside, especially at times when the traffic on those roads should be greatest.  Scientists are unsure how this relationship works, but it [...]

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Click here to listen to episode 479 of Weather Break.
Here at Weather Break, we know that we get our best ideas from the questions that our listeners ask us. Recently, we were asked about “hundred-year floods”. This term is a bit tricky, as it doesn’t mean quite like it sounds like it would. [...]

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Click here to listen to episode 392 of Weather Break
We often have tragic stories about flooding here on Weather Break, but today’s story is particularly unusual in that the flooding occurred in a place that hardly sees any rain over the course of the year:  Ghardaia, Algeria.  With only about 2.5 [...]

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Click here to listen to episode 373 of Weather Break
Bihar is a province in northeastern India, where the summer monsoon is currently its peak.  The heavy rains of the monsoon have caused the Koshi river there to jump out of its normal channel and move into an older, dry channel, where over [...]

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Click here to listen to episode 360 of Weather Break
Thunderstorms reveal in the incredible power lightning.  Is there any way that this energy could be harnessed and used to provide electrical power?  On today’s episode of Weather Break, Dr. Jon Schrage looks into the complications that would be faced in capturing [...]

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