Weather Break

Click here to listen to episode 719 of Weather Break.
As hurricane season approaches, fans of the Weather Channel will start noticing that their meteorologists are getting more and more interested in storm systems that move off the coast of West Africa.  That’s because the cloud systems that are seen on satellite images in that part [...]

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Click here to listen to episode 601 of Weather Break.
Forecasting the development and track of a hurricane is a particular difficult challenge — even today, with the help of satellites and supercomputers, this remains one of the hardest predictions to make in meteorology, and these forecasts are only reliable for a few days in advance [...]

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Click here to listen to episode 599 of Weather Break.
Everyone has heard of the “monsoon”, which brings a strong rainy season to places like India or West Africa.  What you might NOT know is that monsoons aren’t just something that happen far away in distant, tropical corners of the world.  Here in the United States, [...]

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Click here to listen to episode 566 of Weather Break.
In our part of the world, summer is clearly the warm season and winter is the cold season, but that’s not really the way it works in other parts of the world.  For example, in much of the tropics, the temperature doesn’t really change all that [...]

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Click here to listen to episode 537 of Weather Break.
It’s not everyday that meteorologists get a whole new platform for observing the atmosphere–heck, most days we’re happy if more or less all of the existing systems (like weather balloons, radars, and satellites) are all working. However, a new system for getting realtime observations of [...]

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