Weather Break

Click here to listen to episode 623 of Weather Break.
“Water water everywhere nor any drop to drink” complained a group of sailors stranded at sea in Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s “Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner”.  In the poem, the sailors had run out of fresh drinking water, and so despite being surrounded by water, they were [...]

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Click here to listen to episode 622 of Weather Break.
Yesterday we talked about the ways that one can get fresh, clean drinking water directly from the atmosphere through the process known as harvesting dew.  This can be a reliable, eco-friendly way to get small quantities of water, but you aren’t going to be able to [...]

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Click here to listen to episode 621 of Weather Break.
Everyone knows that we all need to work to conserve fresh water resources.  However, in some parts of the world, access to fresh, clean water is far more limited than what we are accustomed to in the United States.  There is an increased interest in recent [...]

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Click here to listen to episode 612 of Weather Break.
Yesterday on Weather Break, we talked with Mr. Steve Byrd, a retired forecaster with the National Weather  Service, to learn more about the conditions under which dew and fog occur at night.  Today we’re following up on that conversation with more questions about how the NWS [...]

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Click here to listen to episode 611 of Weather Break.
At night, temperatures fall, and if they fall all the way to the current “dewpoint temperature”, condensation will be begin–water vapor in the atmosphere will start turning into liquid water droplets.  But here’s the thing–sometimes that will result in DEW on the surface of the Earth, [...]

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