Weather Break

Click here to listen to episode 281 of Weather Break
From March 14 to 15, 2008, a series of tornadoes struck Georgia.  One of these tornadoes actually struck downtown Atlanta, causing damage to the Georgia World Congress Center, the Georgia Dome, and the CNN headquarters.  On today’s episode of Weather Break, Creighton [...]

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Click here to listen to episode 280 of Weather Break
Yesterday was the spring equinox, which marks the astronomical end of winter and the beginning of spring.  From a meteorological perspective, however, winter has actually been over for a couple of weeks now, since atmospheric scientists define “winter” as the three months [...]

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Click here to listen to episode 279 of Weather Break
Every professor of meteorology dreads questions about “ball lightning”.  Whereas the regular form of lightning is fairly well-understood by science, it’s not even clear whether or not ball lightning exists, much less whether or not it is caused by meteorological factors.  On [...]

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Click here to listen to episode 278 of Weather Break
Yesterday on Weather Break, Dr. Jon Schrage of the Creighton University Department of Atmospheric Sciences spoke with Katrin Krueger, a student in the Institute of Meteorology at the Free University of Berlin, about the Adopt-A-Vortex program. Through that program, European cyclones and [...]

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Click here to listen to episode 277 of Weather Break
Earlier this month, Cyclone Emma swept across central Europe, bringing strong winds and heavy snows to much of Germany.  You might remember this storm because of the dramatic video footage of a Lufthansa airliner struggling to land in stiff crosswinds at the [...]

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