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Taking A Look Back at Winter 2019 Climate Statistics

Taking A Look Back at Winter 2019 Climate Statistics

| April 1, 2019 @ 9:30 am

As the cold days of winter fade away, spring is starting to go into full gear across the United States. The National Center for Environmental Information has released their climate statistics from this past winter.

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Weather Folklore: Fact Or Fiction?

Weather Folklore: Fact Or Fiction?

| March 30, 2019 @ 7:30 pm

Weather folklore has been going on for generations and was mostly started by sailors many centuries ago and possibly even from the very beginning of time.

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Derechos: A Rare Event

Derechos: A Rare Event

| March 30, 2019 @ 2:30 pm

Derechos are rare because for them to thrive for such a long time with such intensity, they need consistent fuel (instability) and enough shear throughout the environment to support constant wind speeds of that nature.

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The Three Stages To A Thunderstorm

The Three Stages To A Thunderstorm

| March 30, 2019 @ 9:30 am

There are three stages of a thunderstorm: the cumulus stage, the mature cumulus stage, and the dissipating stage.

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What is a Rain Shadow?

What is a Rain Shadow?

| March 29, 2019 @ 7:30 pm

           In the northernmost region of the large island of Hawai’i, there is a tall mountain that separates the east from the west: Kohala Mountain. It has long been a trademark of the region for its incredible effect on the island. It’s responsible for creating the obvious rift in geography between the leeward and windward sides of the mountain that one can see in the image above. What about the mountain though causes one side to be lush with v […]

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The Science Behind Sea & Land Breezes

The Science Behind Sea & Land Breezes

| March 29, 2019 @ 2:30 pm

Astronomical Spring is here for those in the Northern hemisphere, and more “spring-like” weather is approaching.

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A Look Back at the Nebraska Floods of March 2019

A Look Back at the Nebraska Floods of March 2019

| March 29, 2019 @ 9:30 am

The State of Nebraska, along with several nearby states, is slowly recovering from one of the most extreme flooding events in recent memory.

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Tornado Alley May Be On The Move: Where it is Going and What You Need to Know (Credit: Nature Journal)

Tornado Alley May Be On The Move: Where it is Going and What You Need to Know (Credit: Nature Journal)

| March 26, 2019 @ 9:30 am

Recent tornado outbreaks in the Southeast U.S. have spawned talk of extreme severe weather that is occuring in an area of the country that is not typically used to such extreme tornado outbreaks.

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Tropical Cyclone Idai, Deadliest Weather Disaster Of 2019

Tropical Cyclone Idai, Deadliest Weather Disaster Of 2019

| March 16, 2019 @ 2:30 pm

Cyclones are typical for Mozambique during this season but there are growing concerns that the weather patterns have increased in intensity.

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The Wedge And Cold Air Damming

The Wedge And Cold Air Damming

| March 8, 2019 @ 2:30 pm

?Have you ever experienced a period of grey, wet weather that seems to drag on forever?

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Revisiting The Coldest Temperatures Ever Recorded In The Continental U. S.

Revisiting The Coldest Temperatures Ever Recorded In The Continental U. S.

| March 8, 2019 @ 9:30 am

Late January and early February of this year brought an outbreak of frigid arctic air to a large portion of the U.S. with temperatures in the north-central portion of the U.S. the coldest that they have been in over 20 years.

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The Subtle Yet Fundamental Differences Between Deterministic & Probabilistic Weather Forecasting

The Subtle Yet Fundamental Differences Between Deterministic & Probabilistic Weather Forecasting

| March 7, 2019 @ 2:30 pm

For many years, weather forecasting has proven challenging for forecasters and researchers. Marked by consistent improvement yet continual obstacles, the nature of forecasting any type of weather event from benign showers to a full-scale severe weather outbreak is loaded with stochasticity.

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What Is Advection?

What Is Advection?

| March 7, 2019 @ 9:30 am

During weather broadcasts on television, the term of Advection has been thrown into the mix usually when referring to a transfer of cold air or warm air into a specific region that will cause a variation in temperature.

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Desert Landscape… Or Is It?

Desert Landscape… Or Is It?

| March 6, 2019 @ 2:30 pm

This MODIS satellite image on August of 2005 captures a dust storm crossing Iraq and portions of the Middle East.

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