Weather Break

Click here to listen to episode 552 of Weather Break.
Summer is here, and already people are complaining about the heat. With Global Warming and climate change in the news so much these days, it’s hard to believe that as recently as just a few hundred years ago civilization faced exactly the opposite threat. [...]

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Click here to listen to episode 551 of Weather Break.
If you want to annoy a meteorologist, ask him or her a question about stars, nebulae, comets, galaxies, or some other astronomy topic. It’s very common for people to assume that meteorologists study things like this – especially since the word “meteor” is in “meteorology”. [...]

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Click here to listen to episode 550 of Weather Break.
Monday was the Summer Solstice – the longest day of the year in the Northern Hemisphere. From now until December, the days will gradually get shorter and shorter as the sun rises later and sets earlier each day. Or, at least, that’s IN GENERAL [...]

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Click here to listen to episode 549 of Weather Break.
More or less everyone knows that hurricanes and tropical storms in the Atlantic ocean are assigned names – HUMAN names, like “Katrina”, “Andrew” and “Hugo”. But if you look through the records of some of the strongest storms of the last 100 years, you come [...]

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Click here to listen to episode 548 of Weather Break.
As we continue to move through the summer season, prolonged periods of warm weather will lead your local TV meteorologist to pull out “the heat index” once again. Much like the “wind chill temperature” or “RealFeel”, the heat index is an example of an “apparent [...]

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