Weather Break

Click here to listen to episode 618 of Weather Break.
In one form or another, the National Weather Service has been around for over 135 years now.  Originally part of the War Department’s Signal Corps, the first meteorologists of the NWS issued their first forecast on November 1, 1870.   When you read the forecast, it [...]

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When Dr. Jon Schrage of the Creighton University Department of Atmospheric Sciences was a kid, his grade school would always have boxes of scratch paper that were donated by the local National Weather Service office. The front side of the papers were covered with strange codes [...]

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Click here to listen to episode 481 of Weather Break.
In meteorology, “models” are computer programs that can simulate the behavior of the atmosphere.  Forecasters use them to make predictions of the upcoming weather, and climatologists use them to study past and future climates of the planet.  One of the oldest computer models was retired last [...]

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Click here to listen to episode 471 of Weather Break.
When Dr. Jon Schrage of the Creighton University Department of Atmospheric Sciences was a kid, his grade school would always have boxes of scratch paper that were donated by the local National Weather Service office. The front side of the papers were covered with strange [...]

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Click here to listen to episode 418 of Weather Break.
Many weather observations are gathered by professionals in the field of the atmospheric sciences; only professional radar technicians operate radar stations, for example. However, many people are surprised to learn that much of the documentation of the climate of our country is actually done by [...]

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