Weather Break

Click here to listen to episode 475 of Weather Break.
Our guest for the last few days on Weather Break has been Dr. Suzanne van Cooten of the National Severe Storms Lab in Norman, Oklahoma. In addition to being a highly-respected hydrometeorologist, Dr. van Cooten is also a citizen of the Chickasaw tribe in Oklahoma–in [...]

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Click here to listen to episode 474 of Weather Break.
Meteorology is a highly “interdisciplinary” field, meaning that it builds on the skills in insights developed by specialists in lots of different subject areas. Meteorologists learn about physics and chemistry and math and computer science, for example. Our guest today on Weather Break is [...]

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Click here to listen to episode 473 of Weather Break.
Dr. Suzanne van Cooten of the National Severe Storms Laboratory in Norman, Oklahoma is the guest on Weather Break for the next three days. She’s a respected hydrometeorologist with strong interests in a variety of academic disciplines. Today on Weather Break, we start our [...]

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Click here to listen to episode 472 of Weather Break.
On this date 199 years ago, British scientist Henry Cavendish died. Cavendish is one of the great minds in the history of science, but the reason why meteorologists remember him and his work is his discovery of hydrogen gas. In our times, there is [...]

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Click here to listen to episode 471 of Weather Break.
When Dr. Jon Schrage of the Creighton University Department of Atmospheric Sciences was a kid, his grade school would always have boxes of scratch paper that were donated by the local National Weather Service office. The front side of the papers were covered with strange [...]

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