Click here to listen to episode 805 of Weather Break.
Today’s is the final episode of Weather Break. All this week, we’ve been talking about how weather features end, but that brings up a really interesting question– why doesn’t weather itself ever end? After all, the atmosphere is under the influence of friction, which always acts [...]
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Why Weather Never Ends
November 12th, 2010 · 2 Comments
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Frontolysis
November 8th, 2010 · No Comments
Click here to listen to episode 801 of Weather Break.
This is the final week of production of new episodes of Weather Break, and as the program winds down it got us thinking about the different weather features wind down or end. A good example of this sort of process would be “frontolysis”, or how fronts [...]
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Classic Weather Break — The “Meteor” in “Meteorology”
November 4th, 2010 · No Comments
Click here to listen to this episode of Weather Break.
If you want to annoy a meteorologist, ask him or her a question about stars, nebulae, comets, galaxies, or some other astronomy topic. It’s very common for people to assume that meteorologists study things like this – especially since the word “meteor” is in “meteorology”. So [...]
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Gliese 581g
October 29th, 2010 · No Comments
Click here to listen to episode 800 of Weather Break.
Today the folks behind Weather Break are celebrating the 800th episode of the program by looking beyond the traditional limits of our topics — the weather and the climate of the Earth — and examining the possible climate of one of the new, so-called exoplanets that [...]
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Large Daily Cycles of Temperature
October 28th, 2010 · No Comments
Click here to listen to episode 799 of Weather Break.
Lately, in much of Nebraska and South Dakota the difference between the daily high temperature and the daily low temperature has been unusually large– something like forty degrees Fahrenheit, whereas something more like twenty-five degrees would be more expected. The reasons for the unusually high [...]
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