Weather Break

Click here to listen to episode 465 of Weather Break.
Today is the 31st anniversary of the Blizzard of 1978, one of the worst nor’easters ever to strike the US. At least 100 people are reported to have died in this storm. Nor’easters are a type of cyclone that produce particularly large amounts of snow along [...]

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Click here to listen to episode 412 of Weather Break.
Today is the 68th anniversary of a particularly deadly winter storm known as the Armistice Day Storm. Unseasonably warm weather and a day off from work for the holiday convinced thousands of duck and turkey hunters across the Midwest to spend the day out in [...]

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Click here to listen to episode 411 of Weather Break.
Late last week, a major snowstorm moved across the northern plains, dumping nearly 4 feet — not inches, feet — of snow near Deadwood, South Dakota.  The storm was an example of a midlatitude cyclone, which are the kinds of storm systems associated with cold fronts [...]

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