Weather Break

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 615 of Weather Break.
Between Pixar’s movie UP and the recent exploits of a family in Colorado, there has been a lot of interest in recent months about using helium balloons as a way to lift cargo up to great heights in the atmosphere.  The apparent hoax in Colorado is [...]

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Click here to listen to episode 610 of Weather Break.
If you have access to dry ice, you can create a great special effect for your upcoming Halloween party– artificial fog.  You’ve probably seen this effect in the past.  If you drop a chunk of dry ice (that is, frozen carbon dioxide) into a bowl of [...]

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Click here to listen to episode 609 of Weather Break.
As the first few cool, crisp nights of autumn arrive, it’s time to pull all your sweaters out of the back of the closet and enjoy the season.  Sweaters are actually pretty interesting, from a meteorological point of view, as they can be used to illustrate [...]

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After the first hard freeze of the fall season, it is common to have an extended period of unseasonably warm weather.  This weather pattern is often called “Indian Summer”.  In today’s episode of Weather Break, Creighton University student Ross Caniglia and KPTM meteorologist Tyson Pearsall discuss [...]

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