Weather Break

Click here to listen to episode 405 of Weather Break
El Nino and La Nina (collectively known as ENSO, short for the El Nino Southern Oscillation) hasn’t been in the news much in recent months.  Both of these weather patterns involve unusual distributions of sea surface temperature across the tropical Pacific ocean, and [...]

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Click here to listen to Episode 405 of Weather Break.
El Nino and La Nina (collectively known as ENSO, short for the El Nino Southern Oscillation) hasn’t been in the news much in recent months.  Both of these weather patterns involve unusual distributions of sea surface temperature across the tropical Pacific ocean, [...]

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Click here to listen to Episode 404 of Weather Break.
On the morning of January 22, 1943, the town of Spearfish, South Dakota set the all time record for greatest two-minute temperature change.  This 49 degree temperature increase was due to a particularly strong example of what is known as a chinook.  [...]

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Click here to listen to episode 404 of Weather Break
On the morning of January 22, 1943, the town of Spearfish, South Dakota set the all time record for greatest two-minute temperature change.  This 49 degree temperature increase was due to a particularly strong example of what is known as a chinook.  On [...]

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Click here to listen to episode 403 of Weather Break
For the last two days on Weather Break, we’ve been talking about two different ways to try to understand the nature of the atmosphere:  the mythology of the ancient Greeks, and the rational attempts to understand the world through philosophy.  Inspired by these [...]

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