Weather Break

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 597 of Weather Break.
Have you seen the pictures in the news lately about the big dust storms going on in Australia?  Eastern Australia — especially the city of Sydney — was blanketed by a thick coating of dust last week.  The pictures from those days make Sydney seem like [...]

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Click here to listen to episode 566 of Weather Break.
In our part of the world, summer is clearly the warm season and winter is the cold season, but that’s not really the way it works in other parts of the world.  For example, in much of the tropics, the temperature doesn’t really change all that [...]

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The biggest natural disaster in the United States in 2008 was Hurricane Ike. About 150 people died when that storm made landfall near Galveston, TX. Much of the damage caused by a hurricane is due to the high waters, known as the storm surge. The highest [...]

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Click here to listen to this episode of Weather Break.
The biggest natural disaster in the United States in 2008 was Hurricane Ike, which made landfall near Galveston, TX in September as a Category 2 hurricane. About 150 people died. Much of the damage caused by a hurricane is due to the high waters, known as [...]

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