Weather Break

Click here to listen to episode 800 of Weather Break.
Today the folks behind Weather Break are celebrating the 800th episode of the program by looking beyond the traditional limits of our topics — the weather and the climate of the Earth — and examining the possible climate of one of the new, so-called exoplanets that [...]

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Click here to listen to episode 799 of Weather Break.
Lately, in much of Nebraska and South Dakota the difference between the daily high temperature and the daily low temperature has been unusually large– something like forty degrees Fahrenheit, whereas something more like twenty-five degrees would be more expected. The reasons for the unusually high [...]

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Click here to listen to episode 798 of Weather Break.
Earlier this month, the strongest tropical cyclone of 2010 hit the island-nation of the Philippines. This storm was officially known as Super Typhoon Megi. Typhoons are the same kind of weather systems as hurricanes, and typhoons in the Western Pacific get names, just like [...]

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Click here to listen to episode 797 of Weather Break.
When you dust your furniture, have you ever wondered where all that dust came from? Well, indoors and in our part of the world, most of what you find is lint and dirt and pet dander, but a certain amount of what’s there came from [...]

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Click here to listen to episode 796 of Weather Break.
Picture the Sahara Desert in your mind — shifting dunes of sand, extremely high daytime temperatures, and virtually no plant life whatsoever. Now for a surprise — it hasn’t always been that way. As recently as about five thousand years ago, the area now [...]

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