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Click here to listen to episode 649 of Weather Break.
Lightning rods are a proven technology for reducing the risk of fires when lightning strikes the roof of a building.  The rod itself is actually designed to get struck itself, safely conducting the enormous amounts of electricity into the ground.  The basic principles behind a lightning [...]

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Click here to listen to episode 648 of Weather Break.
Remember the hurricane season of 2005?  That was the one that brought several major hurricanes the shores of the US, including Hurricanes Katrina, Rita and Wilma.  The 2005 season was the most active year on record for storms in the Atlantic, known not only for the [...]

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Click here to listen to episode 647 of Weather Break.
In the fall and early winter, lake-effect snow is in the news a lot.  These are the storms that just DUMP snow out along the shores of the Great Lakes.  This kind of snowfall is created by the large temperature difference between the lakes and the [...]

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Click here to listen to episode 646 of Weather Break.
Had he lived, today would have been the 111th birthday of Carl-Gustaf Rossby.  Never heard of him?  Here at Weather Break, we mark the birthday’s of meteorologists all the time–some of them are important, and maybe some of them are a little less so, but there [...]

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Click here to listen to episode 645 of Weather Break.
Merry Christmas, everyone!  On behalf of everyone here at the Creighton University Department of Atmospheric Sciences, I hope that this season you find “just the right amount of snow”–not too little and not too much!  If you’re traveling, hopefully you won’t encounter what meteorologists call “three [...]

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