Weather Break

Click here to listen to episode 514 of Weather Break.
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, or UAVS, have been proven to be a remarkable tool for the military operations in Afghanistan and Iraq. From a safe location hundreds or even thousands of miles away, a pilot remotely controls the UAV to gather intelligence on the enemy or [...]

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Click here to listen to episode 513 of Weather Break.
In recent years, you might have heard about some of the amazing things that the military has been doing with Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, or UAVs. UAVs have become an invaluable resource for the operations in Iraq and Afghanistan—the military uses them to fly over hostile [...]

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Click here to listen to episode 512 of Weather Break.
Yesterday on Weather Break, Creighton student Anna Weber talked about how lightning happens and how various ground-based lightning detection networks operate, providing both forecasters and the public with important information about lightning during severe weather. But scientists are also interested in more global information about [...]

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Click here to listen to episode 511 of Weather Break.
During severe weather warnings, if you watch your local TV weatherman he’ll show you radar plots and Doppler radar data and, maybe, lightning information. When lightning strikes, huge quantities of electrical charge are “on the move”, creating the phenomena that we associate with storms, like [...]

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Click here to listen to episode 510 of Weather Break.
After a tornado passes, meteorologists descend on the scene of the destruction to find evidence of how strong the tornado was. In fact, this is the ONLY way that we can get information about how strong the winds were, since tornadoes never really hit weather [...]

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