Weather Break

Click here to listen to episode 765 of Weather Break.
All this week on Weather Break, we’re talking about weather and climate cycles.  In general, most professional meteorologists and climatologists are pretty skeptical about claims of discoveries of “cycles” or “patterns” in weather and climate, but a small number of these DO check out.  One important [...]

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Click here to listen to episode 731 of Weather Break.
Today is the anniversary of the birth of Sir Gilbert Walker, one of the greatest of the scientists who worked to figure out the basics of what has come to be known as El Nino and La Nina.  Much of his work was done more than [...]

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Click here to listen to episode 726 of Weather Break.
The last 12 months or so have been an example of an “El Nino year”–a fairly MILD example, true, but still there are El Nino conditions across most of the equatorial Pacific Ocean.  Even really strong El Ninos, like the ones observed in 1982-32 and 1997-98, [...]

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Click here to listen to episode 532 of Weather Break.
Yesterday on Weather Break, we talked about the recently-released forecasts for the overall hurricane activity in the Atlantic for the rest of this year. Forecasters with the federal government are calling for this to be a “near normal” year, with 9-14 tropical storms and 4-7 [...]

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Click here to listen to episode 405 of Weather Break
El Nino and La Nina (collectively known as ENSO, short for the El Nino Southern Oscillation) hasn’t been in the news much in recent months.  Both of these weather patterns involve unusual distributions of sea surface temperature across the tropical Pacific ocean, and [...]

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