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Yesterday on Weather Break, we told the story of C. LeRoy Meisinger and his attempts to show the usefulness of MANNED weather balloons back in the 1910s and 1920s.  Today, of course, weather balloons are strictly UNMANNED, and with good reason.  While it certainly is true [...]

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All this week on Weather Break, we’ve been talking about weather balloons and their applications in meteorology.  The weather balloons that are used today are relatively small and can’t really lift all that much weight.  Therefore, the package of instruments that the weather balloon carries — [...]

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For the last few days, we’ve been talking about the use of weather balloons in meteorology.  Modern weather balloons are designed to rise rapidly until the balloon itself pops and the whole apparatus falls back to the surface of the Earth within an hour of launch. [...]

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Most of the weather features people get excited about in our part of the country are associated with areas of low pressure called cyclones.  They are large, but the majority of them are not very powerful.  You will often see them on a television weather map [...]

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O’Neill, Nebraska was the site of the 1953 “Great Plains Field Turbulence Project”, which also came to be known as “The O’Neill Experiment”.  This was one of the most important weather experiments in meteorological history; it truly forms the basis of much of what scientists know [...]

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