Weather Break

Click here to listen to episode 460 of Weather Break.
The weather of the last few weeks has featured bitterly cold nights with somewhat more mild days. These are perfect conditions for the formation of what we call “black ice” on road surfaces. What exactly is “black ice”, and how can drivers prepare for it? We [...]

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Click here to listen to episode 459 of Weather Break.
It’s a pretty bad day when you get hit by a hurricane. The high winds, the heavy rains and the destructive storm surge–it’s not really something that anyone would CHOOSE to go through. Well, on June 15, 1991, a pretty big hurricane hit the Philippine island [...]

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Click here to listen to episode 458 of Weather Break.
According to the Guinness Book of World Records, on this date in 1887 the largest snowflake ever observed fell in Fort Keogh, Montana. Supposedly this snowflake was 15 inches wide and 8 inches thick! Not surprisingly there aren’t any photographs of this giant snowflake, so [...]

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Click here to listen to episode 457 of Weather Break.
Everybody knows that winter is the coldest season of the year, but what’s the coldest day of the week? At first, the question might seem nonsensical, but, since human activity has a strong weekly cycle, perhaps so too should the temperatures. On weekdays, when [...]

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Click here to listen to episode 456 of Weather Break.
Whether you call their country “Holland” or “the Netherlands”, the Dutch people have a long a proud tradition of ice skating. Historically, they got to indulge in their national pastime each winter when their elaborate system of canals froze, creating a system of streets of [...]

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