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James Whitcomb Riley’s poem, “When the Frost is on the Punkin”, is a classic in American folk poetry.  Almost everyone read or heard this poem many times in grade school, and its popularity gave rise to the expression “the frost is on the pumpkin”–an old phase [...]

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In his hit “The Summer Wind”, Frank Sinatra sang about the refreshing sea-breezes on a warm afternoon on the beach.  On today’s episode of Weather Break, the Chairman of the Board inspires Dr. Jon Schrage of the Creighton University Department of Atmospheric Sciences to take a [...]

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All this week on Weather Break, we’ve been sharing our Christmas spirit by talking about carols that discuss the weather at Christmastime. Since today is St. Stephen’s Day (as in “Good King Wenceslas looked out / on the Feast of Stephen”, it seemed like a [...]

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Click here to listen to episode 439 of Weather Break.
All this week on Weather Break, we’re in a Christmas spirit, and so we have been taking a look at some Christmas carols that talk about the weather at Christmastime. The German lullaby “Still, Still, Still” has been roughly translated in English as a Christmas [...]

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Click here to listen to episode 438 of Weather Break.
All this week on Weather Break, we’re in a Christmas spirit, and so we’re going to be taking a look at some Christmas carols and poems that talk about the weather at Christmastime. Since tonight is Christmas Eve, it seemed like a good idea to [...]

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