Weather Break

Click here to listen to Episode 665 of Weather Break.
You’ve probably noticed that global warming and climate change are all over the news these days.  Scientists that try to forecast the climate and climate change generally use climate models.  Climate models are computer programs that simulate the Earth’s climate.  While climate models cannot tell you [...]

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Click here to listen to Episode 664 of Weather Break.
When you turn on the TV and listen to the forecast, you hear a meteorologist tell you what temperature it is going to be.  The temperature you hear is in the Fahrenheit scale.  What you may not know is that there are other scales to determine [...]

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Click here to listen to episode 663 of Weather Break.
Monday marks the anniversary of the birth of American scientist Irving Langmuir.  Langmuir has done many things within the field of science, including winning the Nobel Prize for Chemistry.  Meteorologists are interested in him because of his discovery of specific types of circulations in the atmosphere [...]

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Click here to listen to episode 662 of Weather Break.
Most people can agree that freezing rain is one of the worst forms of freezing precipitation.  Freezing rain occurs when the temperature of the rain is slightly above freezing, but the temperature of the surface is below freezing.  When the rain hits the surface, it forms [...]

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Click here to listen to Episode 661 of Weather Break.
Most of the weather features people get excited about in our part of the country are associated with areas of low pressure called cyclones.  They are large, but the majority of them are not very powerful.  You will often see them on a television weather map [...]

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