Weather Break

Click here to listen to episode 221 of Weather Break
All this week on Weather Break, Creighton University student Ross Caniglia and Dr. Jon Schrage will be reviewing the weather and climate of 2007.  In today’s episode, they reflect on the tornadoes of 2007, from Greensburg, Kansas to Holly, Colorado, from Enterprise, [...]

[Read more →]

Click here to listen to episode 220 of Weather Break
Winds in the tropics are unlike the winds that we know in the midlatitudes.  In Nebraska and South Dakota, the winds change from day to day or even hour to hour.  In contrast, winds at the surface in much of the tropics blow [...]

[Read more →]

Click here to listen to episode 219 of Weather Break
In West Africa, the Sahel is a region that separates the moist climates of the jungles and savannas to the south from the dry climates of the Sahara to the north.  As such, the Sahel is necessarily a “marginal” climate zone, with [...]

[Read more →]

Click here to listen to episode 218 of Weather Break
Here at Weather Break, we’re supportive of traditional folklore and folk wisdom about weather and climate.  On yesterday’s episode of Weather Break, Dr. Jon Schrage talked with Mrs. Adeline Smejkal (his grandmother) about one way in which Czechs have traditionally predicted the [...]

[Read more →]

Click here to listen to episode 217 of Weather Break
Here at Weather Break, we’re supportive of traditional folklore and folk wisdom about weather and climate.  These customs sometimes reflect a real understanding of the atmosphere, and sometimes they are more about communicating the variability of weather and climate to the next [...]

[Read more →]