Weather Break

Click here to listen to episode 598 of Weather Break.
“Weather enthusiasts” know that each evening on the news the meteorologist is going to tell you the humidity– usually expressed as the “relative humidity”, which is given as a percent.  It’s a measure of the ratio of how much water vapor the air “is holding” to [...]

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Click here to listen to episode 597 of Weather Break.
Have you seen the pictures in the news lately about the big dust storms going on in Australia?  Eastern Australia — especially the city of Sydney — was blanketed by a thick coating of dust last week.  The pictures from those days make Sydney seem like [...]

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Click here to listen to episode 596 of Weather Break.
Climate change and global warming have become — no pun intended — heated topics of debate in the United States in recent years.  There are legitimate scientific questions and issues on both sides of the discussion about whether or not human activity is contributing to the [...]

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Click here to listen to episode 595 of Weather Break.
Yesterday on Weather Break, we told the story of C. LeRoy Meisinger and his attempts to show the usefulness of MANNED weather balloons back in the 1910s and 1920s.  Today, of course, weather balloons are strictly UNMANNED, and with good reason.  While it certainly is true [...]

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Click here to listen to episode 594 of Weather Break.
All this week on Weather Break, we’ve been talking about weather balloons and their applications in meteorology.  The weather balloons that are used today are relatively small and can’t really lift all that much weight.  Therefore, the package of instruments that the weather balloon carries — [...]

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