Weather Break

Click here to listen to episode 793 of Weather Break.

So far this week, here on the radio program we have been talking about the different processes that the atmosphere can use to transport stuff around the Earth/Atmosphere system. That “stuff” could be materials like moisture, dust, or pollen, or it could be more abstract [...]

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Click here to listen to episode 792 of Weather Break.
For the next few days here on Weather Break, we’re going to be talking about how stuff gets moved around (or “transported”) in the atmosphere.  It turns out that transporting stuff — be that heat or moisture or whatever — around the planet is fundamental what [...]

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Click here to listen to episode 791 of Weather Break.
For the next few days here on Weather Break, we’re going to be talking about how stuff gets moved around (or “transported”) in the atmosphere.  It turns out that transporting stuff — be that heat or moisture or whatever — around the planet is fundamental what [...]

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For anywhere between $30 and a few thousand dollars, anyone can set up a backyard weather station to monitor the weather and climate of their neighborhood.  Lots of people have simple systems like rain gages, but a real weather enthusiast might have wind vanes and anemometers [...]

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In the past on Weather Break, we’ve talked about two different ways to try to understand the nature of the atmosphere:  the mythology of the ancient Greeks, and the rational attempts to understand the world through philosophy.  Inspired by these lines of thought, today on Weather [...]

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