Weather Break

Click here to listen to episode 710 of Weather Break.
Today is the anniversary of the sad death of Robert FitzRoy.  Having suffered from a long battle with depression late in life, FitzRoy killed himself on this date in 1865.  FitzRoy was an admiral in the British Royal Navy, and after a series of professional blunders, [...]

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Click here to listen to episode 709 of Weather Break.
NASA recently discovered the first evidence of lightning in storms on Saturn.  With that information, we now know that lightning occurs on at least two other planets in our solar system, as well as (most likely) on Saturn’s moon, Titan.  Why does it matter that lightning [...]

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Click here to listen to episode 708 of Weather Break.
It seems like it just started warming up a couple of weeks ago, but already folks are starting to think about the summer. Pretty soon the kids will be out of school, all the crops will be in the ground, and some folks will be [...]

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Click here to listen to episode 707 of Weather Break.
Over the weekend, a major tornado struck parts of Mississippi.  This severe weather outbreak, however, did not catch forecasters off-guard because they have a whole toolkit of calculations and computations that can be used to suggest the chances of severe weather in a particular region at [...]

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Click here to listen to episode 706 of Weather Break.
This past weekend saw a major tornado outbreak in Mississippi.  As of Sunday afternoon, 10 deaths had been confirmed, including a 3-month-old child.  On today’s episode of Weather Break, we take a look at these tornadoes and what kinds of clues suggested to forecasters that severe [...]

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