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Click here to listen to episode 443 of Weather Break.
Most people are familiar with the “wind chill temperature”, which is intended to serve as a number the reflects the fact that warm bodies lose heat faster when there is a wind than when the conditions are calm. The wind chill temperature is usually interpreted [...]

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Click here to listen to episode 442 of Weather Break.
Every student of meteorology quickly becomes familiar with Boyle’s Law, and you probably learned it in high school chemistry classes, too. It’s one of the fundamental relationships between the pressure and the volume of a gas. Much of our understanding of the behavior of [...]

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Click here to listen to episode 441 of Weather Break.
At this time of year, everyone is wondering what the weather of the new year will bring us. If you think that there might be value in forecasts based on astrology, then maybe you should pick up the latest copy of the Farmers Almanac. [...]

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Click here to listen to episode 440 of Weather Break.
All this week on Weather Break, we’ve been sharing our Christmas spirit by talking about carols that discuss the weather at Christmastime. Since today is St. Stephen’s Day (as in “Good King Wenceslas looked out / on the Feast of Stephen”, it seemed like a [...]

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Click here to listen to episode 439 of Weather Break.
All this week on Weather Break, we’re in a Christmas spirit, and so we have been taking a look at some Christmas carols that talk about the weather at Christmastime. The German lullaby “Still, Still, Still” has been roughly translated in English as a Christmas [...]

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