Weather Break

Click here to listen to episode 625 of Weather Break.
At this time of year, everyone wants to know what the upcoming winter is going to be like.  Good sources of information about seasonal forecasts like that include various government weather and climate agencies, private weather consulting firms, and academics.  A bad source of information about [...]

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Click here to listen to episode 624 of Weather Break.
The recent change in the weather across Nebraska and South Dakota was brought about by a cold front and the cold Canadian air mass that was behind it.  This air mass was in northern Canada just a few days ago, and back then it had temperatures [...]

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Click here to listen to episode 623 of Weather Break.
“Water water everywhere nor any drop to drink” complained a group of sailors stranded at sea in Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s “Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner”.  In the poem, the sailors had run out of fresh drinking water, and so despite being surrounded by water, they were [...]

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Click here to listen to episode 622 of Weather Break.
Yesterday we talked about the ways that one can get fresh, clean drinking water directly from the atmosphere through the process known as harvesting dew.  This can be a reliable, eco-friendly way to get small quantities of water, but you aren’t going to be able to [...]

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Click here to listen to episode 621 of Weather Break.
Everyone knows that we all need to work to conserve fresh water resources.  However, in some parts of the world, access to fresh, clean water is far more limited than what we are accustomed to in the United States.  There is an increased interest in recent [...]

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