Weather Break

Click here to listen to rerun 017 of Weather Break.
All this week on Weather Break, we’re rebroadcasting some of our favorite episodes about famous tornadoes. Yesterday we replayed an episode in which  Dr. Jon Schrage of the Creighton University Department of Atmospheric Sciences spoke with meteorologist Stacey May from WEHT in Evansville, [...]

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Click here to listen to rerun 016 of Weather Break.
All this week on Weather Break, we’re rebroadcasting some of our favorite episodes about famous tornadoes. In the early morning hours of Sunday, November 6, 2005, a strong tornado ripped through Evansville and Newburgh, Indiana. A total of 25 people were killed, making this the deadliest [...]

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Click here to listen to episode 495 of Weather Break.
Meteorologist s aren’t just interested in FALLING snow; they also need good information about the amount of snow cover on the ground in order to make good forecasts of the upcoming weather. Snow cover has a strong influence on each day’s temperature, for example, since [...]

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Click here to listen to episode 494 of Weather Break.
Yesterday on Weather Break, we talked about the highest layer in the atmosphere–the thermosphere. The thermosphere is one of the strangest places on Earth. The air there is extremely thin but extremely hot. Air temperatures frequently exceed 4000 degrees F! The very thin nature of [...]

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Click here to listen to episode 492 of Weather Break.
For meteorologists and atmospheric scientists, it’s useful to talk about the atmosphere in terms of layers. Way up at the top of the atmosphere, you’ll find the thermosphere, and it is one of the strangest places on Earth. The “bottom” of the thermosphere is about 55 [...]

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