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With President Obama preparing to go to Copenhagen for the upcoming United Nations Climate Change Conference in December, here at Weather Break we’ve decided to rebroadcast some of our classic episodes about Global Warming.  One of the goals of the conference is going to be to [...]

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Click here to listen to episode 630 of Weather Break.
If you haven’t gotten the impression from the last three years of Weather Break, meteorologists love cyclones. They are just big, broad areas of low pressure, and they aren’t particularly rare, but they are nothing less than amazing. Their counterclockwise circulation, how they rearrange [...]

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Click here to listen to episode 629 of Weather Break.

For the last two days here on Weather Break, we’ve been talking about cyclones.  Whether they occur in the tropics or in the higher latitudes, cyclones are always broad areas of low pressure. When meteorologists are talking about air pressure, they generally use the [...]

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Click here to listen to episode 628 of Weather Break.
One of those meteorological terms that you hear getting thrown around from time to time is “Storm of the Century”.  Actually, there’s no such thing, really– there’s isn’t a single storm that bears the name “storm of the century”, and there really couldn’t be–it would depend [...]

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Click here to listen to episode 626 of Weather Break.
“Cyclone” is a powerful word in meteorology.  It has come to refer to an area of winds that are rotating in a counter-clockwise manner in the Northern Hemisphere or a clockwise way in the Southern Hemisphere.   The word is so common in meteorology that it’s [...]

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