Weather Break

Click here to listen to episode 336 of Weather Break
Monitoring the global distribution of precipitation is one of the most important goals of the scientific discipline known as “remote sensing”.  Using a variety of instruments onboard satellites, estimates of rain rate can be calculated for almost any location on the Earth [...]

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Click here to listen to episode 335 of Weather Break
Fertilizers, pesticides, and other chemicals are a necessary part of modern agriculture in the United States.  While ideally none of these chemicals would go to waste, in practice millions of tons of these materials end up in the runoff after heavy rainfall each [...]

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Click here to listen to episode 334 of Weather Break
Probably one of the most iconic images of the Great Floods of 2008 has been the homes being torn apart and carried away as Lake Delton drained into the Wisconsin River.  On today’s episode of Weather Break, Dr. Jon Schrage takes a look [...]

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Click here to listen to episode 333 of Weather Break
In many ways, the current and recent flooding in the Midwest has been reminiscent of the horrifying images that came out of New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina in 2005.  This has led some public officials in the Midwest to declare that the Great [...]

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Click here to listen to episode 332 of Weather Break
Weather Break’s coverage of the Floods of 2008 continues today with a look back at the some of the possible causes of the Great Floods of 1993, which happened 15 years ago this month.  Those floods occurred on the same rivers as the [...]

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