Weather Break

Click here to listen to episode 680 of Weather Break.
On this date way back in 1799, one of the founders of the discipline of thermodynamics was born.  His name was Benoît Paul Émile Clapeyron, and every student of meteorology is familiar with an equation that bears his name.  The so-called “Claussius Clapeyron Equation” forms the [...]

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Click here to listen to episode 679 of Weather Break.
Earlier this month, you undoubtedly heard all the stories on the news about the series of huge snowstorms that struck the eastern US.   Some folks started calling these storms the “Snowmeggedon” or the “Snowpocalpse”, as if these storms were the end of the world. Here [...]

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Click here to listen to episode 678 of Weather Break.
Earlier this month, you undoubtedly heard all the stories on the news about the series of huge snowstorms that struck the eastern US. The news media had a lot of fun with these storms, giving them silly and funny names like the “Snowmeggedon” or the [...]

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Click here to listen to episode 677 of Weather Break.
Meteorologists describe winds that are bumping and characterized by swirls as being “turbulent”.  In contrast, winds that flow smoothly are said to be “laminar”.  ”Turbulent” and “laminar” conditions are all around us each day–for example, if the winds are gusty, the flow is generally turbulent.  Obviously, [...]

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Click here to listen to episode 676 of Weather Break.
Space, of course, is a place in which there is no “air”.  Since that’s the case, you might be surprised to learn that there ARE “winds” in space.  The so-called “Solar Wind” is a good example.  The Solar Wind is a flow of particles–mostly hydrogen and [...]

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