Weather Break

Click here to listen to episode 382 of Weather Break
On September 13, Hurricane Ike made landfall near Galveston, TX as a category 2 hurricane with winds of up to 110 MPH.  Some of the greatest water damage in the storm happened in extreme southeastern TX, near the cities of Port Arthur, Bridge [...]

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Click here to listen to episode 381 of Weather Break
On September 13, Hurricane Ike made landfall near Galveston, TX as a Category 2 hurricane with winds of up to 110 MPH.  Much of the damage caused by a hurricane is due to the high waters, known as the storm surge.  The highest [...]

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Click here to listen to episode 380 of Weather Break
Living at the bottom of the atmosphere, we experience weather every day, so it can be hard to us to understand that there is a height in the atmosphere above which there really isn’t any “weather”.  That level is called the tropopause, and [...]

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Click here to listen to episode 379 of Weather Break
The population of grasshoppers can vary dramatically from year to year.  Some of the factors associated with the variability are associated with weather and climate, such a temperatures and moisture.  Other factors arise from changes in the numbers of predators that eat [...]

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Click here to listen to episode 378 of Weather Break
Meteorologists work hard to produce forecast, and during severe weather season the offices of the National Weather Service are simply controlled chaos as everyone works furiously to achieve their common goals.  Still, there are a lot of days when there isn’t much [...]

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