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Click here for episode 425 of Weather Break.
Every weather enthusiast can name his or her favorite types of clouds. With a little practice, anyone can be trained to quickly spot the differences between cloud types like “cirrostratus”, “stratocumulus”, or “altocumulus”. These names are part of a cloud identification and naming system developed by [...]

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Click here to listen to episode 424 of Weather Break.
Happy Thanksgiving! To mark this joyful occasion, Ken Harmon of the Creighton University Department of Atmospheric Sciences decided to do a little research on how the weather of 1620 and 1621 affected the pilgrims as they crossed the Atlantic and worked to establish a permanent [...]

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Click here to listen to episode 423 of Weather Break.
Creighton University student Jeff Hamilton is a native of the Denver area, but he’s too young to remember the Thanksgiving Blizzard of 1983, which struck Colorado 25 years ago this week. Nevertheless, Jeff seemed like a good choice of someone to look into that storm, [...]

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Click here to listen to episode 422 of Weather Break.
Here at Weather Break, we like to learn about some of the most amazing storms of all time. Today happens to be the 305th anniversary of the Great Storm of 1703, which remains one of the strongest storms ever to strike England. Despite very [...]

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Click here to listen to episode 421 of Weather Break.
Today on Weather Break, we’re kicking off a new series of episodes about the contributions made by members of the Society of Jesus to the field of meteorology. For those who don’t know, these “Jesuits” are Roman Catholic priests whose vocations involve higher education, research [...]

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