Weather Break

Click here to listen to episode 325 of Weather Break
Whether we’re talking about competitive olympic archery or bow-hunting, weather effects how archers shoot and how the arrow will fly.  On today’s episode of Weather Break, Creighton University graduate student (and archer) Lauren Urban describes how to take changes in the weather [...]

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Click here to listen to episode 324 of Weather Break
Today much of Nebraska is under a “high risk” of severe weather, according to the Storm Prediction Center.  This rare designation makes today a perfect opportunity to talk about SKYWARN, one of the storm spotter networks in the United States.  On today’s [...]

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Click here to listen to episode 323 of Weather Break
El Nino results in shifts in weather patterns worldwide.  In some parts of the tropics, the resulting increases in precipitation are favorable for the spread of certain tropical diseases. Creighton University student Brock Hanisch has been investigating the way El Nino contributes [...]

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Click here to listen to episode 322 of Weather Break
Spring is hay-fever season for many people.  Conventional wisdom says that the weather has a lot to do with how bad your allergy symptoms will be on a given day, but is this true?  On today’s episode of Weather Break, we look into [...]

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Click here to listen to episode 321 of Weather Break
On May 26, 1917, over 100 period were killed in the town of Mattoon, Illinois by an F4 tornado.  The storm actually spawned an entire family of tornadoes that produced a damage path more than 200 miles long over a period of more [...]

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