Weather Break

Click here to listen to episode 743 of Weather Break.
The annual NCAA Men’s College World Series is wrapping up in Omaha–the last time that the games are being played at the venerable Rosenblatt Stadium.  Before long, demolition will start, making way for expansion of the Omaha zoo, but a new, state-of-the-art stadium is nearly complete [...]

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Click here to listen to episode 742 of Weather Break.
Broadcast meteorologists often talk about what’s going on along a front as an example of “the clash of the air masses”, as if somehow cold air and warm air hated each other or something like that.  In and of itself, having cold air right next to [...]

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Click here to listen to episode 741 of Weather Break.
In the pantheon of great atmospheric scientists, one of the early titans is George Hadley, a British lawyer who was also an amateur meteorologist.  Today is the 242nd anniversary of his death.  Hadley formulated one of the first important theories about how the general circulation of [...]

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Click here to listen to episode 740 of Weather Break.
Back in 1981, singer Eddie Rabbitt hit Number 1 with the song “I Love a Rainy Night”, a particularly  evocative description of what nighttime (or “nocturnal”) thunderstorms are like.  This is particularly relevant in much of the Weather Break listening area, as much of our precipitation [...]

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Click here to listen to episode 739 of Weather Break.
All this week on Weather Break, we have been talking about different instruments that can be used to measure precipitation.  So far, all of these pieces of equipment have been collecting what are called “in situ” weather observations.  ”In situ” is a Latin phrase that means [...]

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