Weather Break

Click here to listen to episode 740 of Weather Break.
Back in 1981, singer Eddie Rabbitt hit Number 1 with the song “I Love a Rainy Night”, a particularly  evocative description of what nighttime (or “nocturnal”) thunderstorms are like.  This is particularly relevant in much of the Weather Break listening area, as much of our precipitation [...]

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A couple of weeks ago on Weather Break, we read a poem called “The Soliloquy of the Weather Man” by meteorologist George Mindling.  In that work, Mindling talks about the challenges of producing a reliable forecast and laments the fact that the public only remembers situations [...]

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Click here to listen to episode 645 of Weather Break.
Merry Christmas, everyone!  On behalf of everyone here at the Creighton University Department of Atmospheric Sciences, I hope that this season you find “just the right amount of snow”–not too little and not too much!  If you’re traveling, hopefully you won’t encounter what meteorologists call “three [...]

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Click here to listen to episode 644 of Weather Break.
All this week on Weather Break, we’re talking about Christmas carols that mention the weather and climate.  Today we’re talking about “Winter Wonderland” by Felix Bernard and Richard B. Smith.  When you are digging your car out of a snowbank or shoveling your driveway, it’s easy [...]

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Click here to listen to episode 643 of Weather Break.
At this time of the year, one can hardly escape Christmas music.  It’s everywhere, and a lot of it isn’t very good, frankly.  But lots of songs feature winter weather and climate, so each year at this time the Weather Break team tries to spend the [...]

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