Weather Break

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Summer is here, and already people are complaining about the heat. With Global Warming and climate change in the news so much these days, it’s hard to believe that as recently as just a few hundred years ago civilization faced exactly the opposite threat. Actually, the [...]

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If you want to annoy a meteorologist, ask him or her a question about stars, nebulae, comets, galaxies, or some other astronomy topic. It’s very common for people to assume that meteorologists study things like this – especially since the word “meteor” is in “meteorology”. So [...]

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The so-called “horse latitudes” are regions in the subtropics where the wind speeds are almost always very low–at least for long periods of each year.  Meteorologically, these regions are quite interesting, but for sailors on ships hundreds of years ago, they were a very serious hazard [...]

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Forensic meteorology is a subdiscipline within the Atmospheric Sciences.  It’s the science of reconstructing weather conditions at a particular location at a particular time.  The work of forensic meteorologists is often needed to establish certain facts in court cases, for example.  The meteorologist can testify as [...]

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Click here to listen to episode 722 of Weather Break.
Anybody who lives in Nebraska or South Dakota probably already knows that, in general, it’s windier during the day than it is at night.  However, most people have no idea WHY this happens.  On today’s episode of Weather Break, we take a look at how the [...]

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