Weather Break

Click here to listen to episode 797 of Weather Break.
When you dust your furniture, have you ever wondered where all that dust came from? Well, indoors and in our part of the world, most of what you find is lint and dirt and pet dander, but a certain amount of what’s there came from [...]

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Click here to listen to episode 796 of Weather Break.
Picture the Sahara Desert in your mind — shifting dunes of sand, extremely high daytime temperatures, and virtually no plant life whatsoever. Now for a surprise — it hasn’t always been that way. As recently as about five thousand years ago, the area now [...]

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Click here to listen to episode 786 of Weather Break.
The climate of the so-called “Antarctic Dry Valleys” is like no-place else on Earth — quite literally, the climate of these places is actually more like that of Mars than of, say, Nebraska and South Dakota.  On today’s episode of Weather Break, Dr. Jon Schrage of [...]

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Click here to listen to episode 768 of Weather Break.
All this week on Weather Break, we have been talking about the few known weather or climate cycles.  For folks who were expecting to find out that there were hard-and-fast patterns to the weather, it was probably pretty disappointing — it turns out that even the [...]

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Click here to listen to episode 767 of Weather Break.
All this week on Weather Break, we’re talking about some of the few known “cycles” or “oscillations” in weather and climate.  Today we turn to a feature of the atmosphere known as the North Atlantic Oscillation, or NAO.  Whereas some of the oscillations that we learned [...]

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