Weather Break

Click here to listen to episode 752 of Weather Break.
When the sun is out, its rays strongly heat the ground, and that heat from the ground quickly transfers into the air just above the surface.  Under the right conditions, this produces strong rising plumes of air called “thermals”, and these thermals can give rise to [...]

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Blowing snow presented a major challenge to travelers in Nebraska and South Dakota in the first week of January.  In some locations, the result was an official “ground blizzard”, in which strong sustained winds cause low visibility due to blowing snow.  In today’s episode of Weather [...]

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Part of the reason why many people enjoy the fall weather so much is that the first freeze of the season largely eliminates the summertime problems of insects and pollen.  For people in the KINI listening area, the average date of the first freeze of the [...]

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Click here to listen to episode 419 of Weather Break.
Last week was the 75th anniversary of the Great South Dakota Dust Storm of 1933.  This was one of the greatest single dust storms of the so-called Dust Bowl years of the 1930s.  On today’s episode of Weather Break, Creighton University student Jeff [...]

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Click here to listen to episode 404 of Weather Break
On the morning of January 22, 1943, the town of Spearfish, South Dakota set the all time record for greatest two-minute temperature change.  This 49 degree temperature increase was due to a particularly strong example of what is known as a chinook.  On [...]

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