Weather Break

Click here to listen to episode 625 of Weather Break.
At this time of year, everyone wants to know what the upcoming winter is going to be like.  Good sources of information about seasonal forecasts like that include various government weather and climate agencies, private weather consulting firms, and academics.  A bad source of information about [...]

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Click here to listen to episode 624 of Weather Break.
The recent change in the weather across Nebraska and South Dakota was brought about by a cold front and the cold Canadian air mass that was behind it.  This air mass was in northern Canada just a few days ago, and back then it had temperatures [...]

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Click here to listen to episode 618 of Weather Break.
In one form or another, the National Weather Service has been around for over 135 years now.  Originally part of the War Department’s Signal Corps, the first meteorologists of the NWS issued their first forecast on November 1, 1870.   When you read the forecast, it [...]

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Click here to listen to episode 581 of Weather Break.
If you live in Nebraska or South Dakota, odds are that you have noticed that weather systems generally move from west to east.  Even people with no meteorological knowledge whatsoever generally know that when the TV weatherman shows a radar plot and the storms are to your [...]

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Click here to listen to this episode of Weather Break.
When Dr. Jon Schrage of the Creighton University Department of Atmospheric Sciences was a kid, his grade school would always have boxes of scratch paper that were donated by the local National Weather Service office. The front side of the papers were covered with strange codes [...]

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