Weather Break

Click here to listen to episode 155 of Weather Break
Once a tropical cyclone has winds of at least 39 miles per hour, it is called a “tropical storm” and is assigned a name.  Everyone has heard of these names before, but where do these names come from?  In today’s episode of Weather [...]

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Click here to listen to episode 154 of Weather Break
When you are looking at a hurricane on radar or in satellite pictures, probably their most noticeable trait is how incredibly “structured” they are.  Everyone has heard of the “eye” of the hurricane, and the “eyewall” and “rainbands” surrounding the eye bring [...]

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Click here to listen to episode 153 of Weather Break
The 2007 hurricane season is starting to wind down, and so far it hasn’t been too bad.  It certainly hasn’t been anything like the record-breaking 2005 Atlantic hurricane season, when the National Hurricane Center ran out of names for all of the [...]

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Click here to listen to episode 152 of Weather Break
Radar is a powerful tool in meteorology, but it important for a trained meteorologist to be able to tell the difference between the radar signals from true storms and those signals caused by false echoes from objects on the surface of the [...]

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Click here to listen to episode 151 of Weather Break
Every day since the middle of summer, the days have been getting shorter and the nights have been getting longer.  Late September is actually the time of year during which the length of daylight decreases most rapidly.  In today’s episode of Weather [...]

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