Weather Break

Click here to listen to episode 303 of Weather Break
A few days ago on television I heard a broadcast meteorologist use the phrase “Shed no Thread until April is Dead”. I pay a lot of attention to various weather proverbs and weather folklore, but I have to admit that I’d never [...]

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Click here to listen to episode 302 of Weather Break
The Asian country of Bangladesh has seen more than its fair share of natural disasters in recent decades, including several major “cyclones” (what we in the United States would call “hurricanes”).  The so-called Bhola Cyclone of 1970 may have killed a half a [...]

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Click here to listen to episode 301 of Weather Break
Six years ago today, four people died when a major tornado tore through the city of La Plata, Maryland.  It’s very rare to find an F4 tornado so far each in the U.S.  On today’s episode of Weather Break, Creighton University student Lauren [...]

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Today marks the 300th episode of Weather Break, and the whole team here in the Creighton University Department of Atmospheric Sciences would like to take this opportunity to thank everyone who has helped to make the show a success.  Over the course of the next few weeks, “Phase 2″ of [...]

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One of the most famous tornado outbreaks in U.S. history–the so-called “Andover Tornado Outbreak”–happened 17 years ago this weekend.  Many of the most familiar images and videos of tornadoes came from this one storm, which killed 24 people.  On today’s episode of Weather Break, Creighton University student Amanda Thibault takes a [...]

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