Weather Break

Click here to listen to episode 178 of Weather Break
The news in recent weeks has been dominated by the horrible stories coming out of California as wildfires have burned out of control.  These fires have been caused and maintained by a large number of factors all coming together at just the wrong [...]

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Click here to listen to episode 177 of Weather Break
Sixteen years ago this week, a unique set of circumstances in the atmosphere combined to create what became known as “The Perfect Storm”.  Formed by the merger of a strong midlatitude cyclone with an Atlantic hurricane, the Perfect Storm has remained in [...]

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Click here to listen to episode 176 of Weather Break
Starting October 24, 1997, a strong snowstorm moved through southern and eastern Nebraska.  The storm dumped as much as 23 inches of snow southeast of Grand Island.  Lincoln and the suburbs of Omaha saw about 14 inches of snow in the storm.  Power [...]

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Click here to listen to episode 175 of Weather Break
We tend to think of major outbreaks of tornadic thunderstorms as being typical of spring weather, but they can happen in the fall as well.  Today marks the 11th anniversary of a tornado outbreak in northeastern Nebraska, southeastern South Dakota, and Minnesota.  [...]

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Click here to listen to episode 174 of Weather Break
Recently, the Nobel Peace prize was awarded to former U.S. Vice President Al Gore and the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.  The award recognizes their work in bringing the issues of Global Change into the public consciousness.  This is the [...]

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