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Recently on Weather Break, we inaugurated a new series of episodes that we are calling “Climate and Conflict”.  From time to time here on our show, we’re going to be talking about the ways in which climate and climate change relate to past and ongoing disputes [...]

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Today on Weather Break we are kicking off a new series of episodes that we are calling “Climate and Conflict”.  From time to time here on the show, we’re going to be taking a look at the ways climate and climate change factor into disputes going [...]

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A name like “Fifi” seems more appropriate for a small dog than for a major natural disaster, but Hurricane Fifi was a storm that the people of Central America are unlikely to ever forget.  On this date in 1974, Fifi came ashore in Honduras as a [...]

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In the United States, the primary federal agency charged with monitoring and forecasting the weather is, of course, the National Weather Service.  The NWS is ultimately under the jurisdiction of the Department of Commerce, which actually tells us something about how the government perceives the significance of weather–they [...]

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To say the very least, the last few years have been very tumultuous in the markets.   Each day, no one seems to know whether stocks will go up or go down.  Several times now we’ve heard commentators and pundits on the news say that predicting the [...]

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