Weather Break

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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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Click here to listen to episode 388 of Weather Break
Over Labor Day weekend, Dr. Jon Schrage of the Creighton University Department of Atmospheric Sciences had the opportunity to visit Devils Tower National Monument in northeastern Wyoming. He was surprised to see how many people were climbing the Tower that day.  Climbing Devils [...]

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Click here to listen to episode 374 of Weather Break
The Black Hills of western South Dakota are a great place to trigger thunderstorms in the late afternoon on warm summer days.  Isolated mountain ranges and plateaus form what meteorologists call “elevated heat sources” that efficiently use the heating of the day [...]

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