Weather Break

Click here to listen to episode 604 of Weather Break.
As we discussed yesterday on Weather Break, anemometers are instruments that meteorologists use to measure the speed of the wind.  They can be as simple as a “cup anemometer”, or as fancy and expensive as a “hot wire anemometer”.  Another high-tech way to measure the winds [...]

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Click here to listen to episode 603 of Weather Break.
The kind of instrument that a meteorologist uses to measure the winds is called an anemometer.  The most familiar kind of anemometer is the so-called “cup anemometer”– the kind with the little cups that spin in the wind like a propeller.  However, cup anemometers aren’t particularly [...]

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Click here to listen to episode 592 of Weather Break.
Today we’re continuing Weather Break’s special coverage of the use of weather balloons in meteorology by talking about the so-called “constant level balloons”.  The regular balloons that the National Weather Service uses are designed to rise quite rapidly, popping and falling back to the ground within [...]

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Click here to listen to episode 591 of Weather Break.
All this week on Weather Break, we’re going to be talking about weather balloons.  The kinds of weather balloons that the National Weather Service uses are designed to rise rapidly through the atmosphere, taking measurements of the temperature, pressure, humidity and winds as they go.  Within [...]

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Click here to listen to episode 585 of Weather Break.
For anywhere between $30 and a few thousand dollars, anyone can set up a backyard weather station to monitor the weather and climate of their neighborhood.  Lots of people have simple systems like rain gages, but a real weather enthusiast might have wind vanes and anemometers [...]

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