Weather Break

Click here to listen to episode 470 of Weather Break.
For the last two days here on Weather Break, we have been talking about the topic of “targeted observations”–a fairly new strategy that meteorologists can employ that can provide with high-quality weather observations in just the locations they need in order to make the biggest improvement [...]

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Click here to listen to episode 469 of Weather Break.
Yesterday on Weather Break we gave an overview of the topic of “targeted observations”–a fairly new strategy that meteorologists can employ that can provide with high-quality weather observations in just the locations they need in order to make the biggest improvement in the quality of their [...]

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Click here to listen to episode 468 of Weather Break.
Meteorologists are greedy. Meteorologists LOVE weather observations, and they NEED observations in order to make good forecasts of the weather in the coming days. No matter how many observations we take, meteorologists and forecasters always want and need more. However, as we have been discussing this [...]

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Click here to listen to episode 467 of Weather Break.
Anyone who listens to Weather Break is familiar with the satellite pictures of clouds that you see each evening on the TV weather broadcasts. However, those images are just one of many examples of “remote sensing” that a meteorological satellite can produce to help scientists [...]

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Click here to listen to episode 466 of Weather Break.
Meteorologists are greedy. Meteorologists LOVE weather observations, and they NEED observations in order to make good forecasts of the weather in the coming days. No matter how many observations we take, meteorologists and forecasters always want and need MORE. Weather reports, or “observations”, are [...]

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