Weather Break

Click here to listen to episode 784 of Weather Break.
Obviously, most days have a fairly straightforward cycle of temperatures — it’s colder at night and warmer in the afternoon. But a good question is exactly WHEN the very coldest temperature of the day is observed. On today’s episode of Weather Break, we talk [...]

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Click here to listen to episode 783 of Weather Break.
When precipitation particles like raindrops or snowflakes fall out of the bottom of a cloud, they have to cross the treacherous, subsaturated layer of air beneath the cloud, and, frankly, they often do not make it — they evaporate before hitting the ground. If what’s [...]

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Click here to listen to episode 782 of Weather Break.
Probably everyone has heard the expression that something was “burning up in the atmosphere”.  It usually applies to stuff like satellites or comets that are falling to the surface of the Earth from space.  But WHY does this happen?  Does it have anything to do with [...]

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Click here to listen to episode 781 of Weather Break.
You might wonder WHY someone would want to do something like this, but an artist and an architect recently were able to create an example of an “indoor cloud” as part of an ongoing exhibition in Venice, Italy.  There’s no particular practical application for something like [...]

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Click here to listen to episode 780 of Weather Break.
All this week here on Weather Break, we have been talking about the different kinds of floods that are experienced in Nebraska and South Dakota. All of the kinds of floods that we have discussed clearly had one thing in common — they were all [...]

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