Weather Break

Click here to listen to episode 617 of Weather Break.
When you think about the extremes of weather that a bridge needs to be able to withstand, it’s actually pretty amazing that more bridges don’t collapse during severe weather events.  Probably the most famous weather-related bridge failure would be the case of the notorious Tacoma Narrows [...]

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Click here to listen to episode 616 of Weather Break.
Today is the anniversary of the so-called “White Hurricane of 1913″, also known (perhaps more accurately) as the “Great Lakes Storm”.  This was a particularly dramatic example of a midlatitude cyclone, bringing heavy snow and strong winds to the upper-Midwest.  Over 250 people are known to [...]

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Starting October 24, 1997, a strong snowstorm moved through southern and eastern Nebraska.  The storm dumped as much as 23 inches of snow southeast of Grand Island.  Lincoln and the suburbs of Omaha saw about 14 inches of snow in the storm.  Power was out across [...]

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Ken Harmon of the Creighton University Department of Atmospheric Sciences decided to do a little research on how the weather of 1620 and 1621 affected the pilgrims as they crossed the Atlantic and worked to establish a permanent colony in Massachusetts. Storms at sea, cold weather, [...]

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This month our nation celebrated the anniversary of Christopher Columbus’ first journey across the Atlantic to the New World.  How did a fleet of fragile sailing ships manage to cross the Atlantic at the peak of hurricane season?  Creighton University student Ken Harmon filed this report.
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