Weather Break

Click here to listen to episode 783 of Weather Break.
When precipitation particles like raindrops or snowflakes fall out of the bottom of a cloud, they have to cross the treacherous, subsaturated layer of air beneath the cloud, and, frankly, they often do not make it — they evaporate before hitting the ground. If what’s [...]

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Click here to listen to episode 781 of Weather Break.
You might wonder WHY someone would want to do something like this, but an artist and an architect recently were able to create an example of an “indoor cloud” as part of an ongoing exhibition in Venice, Italy.  There’s no particular practical application for something like [...]

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The meteorology community is buzzing about the possible discovery of a “new” type of cloud, tentatively named “Undulatus asperatus”.  When we say that this is a “new” type of cloud, that doesn’t mean that these clouds hadn’t happened in the past–it just means that in that [...]

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Click here to listen to episode 760 of Weather Break.
If you take a look at the title for today’s episode of Weather Break, you might think that this is a silly question.  I mean, OBVIOUSLY clouds and storms move, right?  You only have to watch them patiently to see them move across the sky.  However, [...]

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Click here to listen to episode 734 of Weather Break.
Mountain ranges are home to many very unusual types of clouds, but none are as strange and photogenic as the lenticular clouds.  These “cap” clouds are very smooth and usually very round, looking something like a flying saucer.  They happen as air flows over the top [...]

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