Weather Break

Click here to listen to episode 748 of Weather Break.
A lot of the episodes that we have produced for Weather Break have been about famous meteorologists and atmospheric scientists.  We often use the anniversaries of their births or deaths to talk about the contributions that these men and women have made to this discipline and [...]

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Click here to listen to episode 741 of Weather Break.
In the pantheon of great atmospheric scientists, one of the early titans is George Hadley, a British lawyer who was also an amateur meteorologist.  Today is the 242nd anniversary of his death.  Hadley formulated one of the first important theories about how the general circulation of [...]

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Click here to listen to episode 733 of Weather Break.
Today is the 40th anniversary of the death of Sydney Chapman, the mathematician who figured out how the Ozone Layer works.  His discovery of what have come to be known as the Chapman Equations helped explain the delicate balance that exists between the various processes that [...]

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Click here to listen to episode 732 of Weather Break.
The British Royal Meteorological Society has been collecting funds to pay for the restoration of the gravesite of a man named George James Symons, and later this summer they will be hosting a ceremony at the cemetery where he is buried, rededicating the headstone.  Who was [...]

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Click here to listen to episode 731 of Weather Break.
Today is the anniversary of the birth of Sir Gilbert Walker, one of the greatest of the scientists who worked to figure out the basics of what has come to be known as El Nino and La Nina.  Much of his work was done more than [...]

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