Weathered Questions
Ever wonder why the sky turns green during severe weather, how meteorologists develop a forecast or what that chance for precipitation really means? Weathered Questions is your go-to podcast for engaging yet educational answers to all your meteorological curiosities, whether you are a curious student, a self proclaimed weather geek or just someone who wants to understand the world of weather around you. Each episode, Certified Broadcast Meteorologist Jan Ryherd and Certified Broadcast and Consulting Meteorologist Kaj O'Mara bring expert insight to everyday weather questions submitted by you, the listeners. We'll break down complex meteorological concepts into simple yet captivating c...
Weathered Questions 6.2
In this week's episode: weather balloons, lightning, hard weather to predict and early frost.
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Weathered Questions 6.1
In this week's episode: tornado ratings, rain and snow at "off" temperatures, EF-5 ratings, are storms gettings stronger, and hurricane names.
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Weathered Questions 5.11
In this week's episode: changing forecasts, rain with no clouds, air mass boundaries, differences between tornadoes and hurricanes and forecast preciseness.
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Weathered Questions 5.10
In this week's episode: training storms, morning storms, mountain rain, SPC outlooks, and the weather side-effects of permanent daylight saving.
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Weathered Questions 5.9
In this week's episode: the LLJ, heat index, why the is sky blue (and why it sometimes isn't!) and point rainfall totals.
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Weathered Questions 5.8
In this week's episode: heavy rain, turning clouds, future radar, radar sources, radar modes, wall clouds, and a hurricane season check-in.
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Weathered Questions 5.7
In this week's episode: weather on the radar but not the ground, safe shelter from extreme weather in a mobile home, weaker or shorter lived nighttime tornadoes, tornado spindirection, and twin tornadoes.
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Weathered Questions 5.6
In this week's episode: normal temperatures, dew point, summer hail, and areal floods.
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Weathered Questions 5.5
In this week's episode: aviation weather: turbulence, viewing clouds from an airplane, why can't airplanes fly through storms, airlines and weather data.
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Weathered Questions 5.4
In this week's episode: cyclical weather patterns, funnel clouds and rotation, watches & warnings polygons, outdoor warning sirens and WEAs.
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Weathered Questions 5.3
In this week's episode: thunder, US vs European weather, El Nino and rain or drought.
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Weathered Questions 5.2
In this week's episode: All things radar - types of radar, what meteorologists look for, what gets picked up that isn't weather, radar artifacts.
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Weathered Questions 5.1
In this week's episode: heat, humidity, heat waves and mugginess and rare weather phenomena.
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Weathered Questions 4.12
In this week's episode: cloud iridescence, weather experiments, CoCoRahs weather reporting, warmth of sunshine and outflow boundaries.
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Weathered Questions 4.11
In this week's episode, and as a follow-up to 4.1, we pull back the curtain on life as a broadcast meteorologist: morning met schedules, important non-science classes, being on TV for the first time and the drawbacks of being a TV meteorologist.
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Weathered Questions 4.10
In this week's episode: predicting the weather based on clouds, meteorology tools, different rain types, why some storms produce hail while others produce wind and tornadoes, layered hail.
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Weathered Questions 4.9
In this week's episode: cirrocumulus and altocumulus clouds, the perfect date, lightning fatalities, dangerous sports, estimated precipitation timing.
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Weathered Questions 4.8
In this week's episode: special guest Dr. Tim Sagers joins Jan and Kaj to to explore how weather impacts health, including joint pain, migraines, mood, sneezing and common misconceptions about cold weather and illness.
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Weathered Questions 4.7
In this week's episode: Kelvin-Helmholtz wave clouds, biggest one day temperatures swing, hardest places to predict the weather and the hardest weather to predict and severe weather risk categories.
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Weathered Questions 4.6
In this week's episode: asperitas clouds, why snow melts around trees first, spring robins, what is "normal" when it comes to weather.
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Weathered Questions 4.5
In this week's episode: lenticular clouds, what stops a tornado, temperatures needed for tornadoes, typography and tornadoes, and Easter folklore.
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Weathered Questions 4.4
In this week's episode: mammatus clouds, record highs and lows, recent severe and snowy weather, and the ITCZ.
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Weathered Questions 4.3
In this week's episode: cap clouds, fire weather, air quality and red flag warnigs.
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Weathered Questions 4.2
In this week's episode: daylight saving, wall clouds, tornado scales and outdoor warning sirens.
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Weathered Questions 4.1
In this week's episode we pull back the curtain on life as a broadcast meteorologist, answering: how a weather forecast gets on air, how we develop a weather forecast, if we get approached in public and how male vs. female experiences differ. Plus the return of cloud of the week!
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Weathered Questions 3.11
In this week's episode: what's up with false spring, wind turbines and windy days, snow pack and temperatures, and why fresh snow is so bright.
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Weathered Questions 3.10
In this week's episode: cirrocumulus clouds, sea breezes, February sunshine, sunrise and sunset timing, ocean currents and the pineapple express.
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Weathered Questions 3.9
In this week's episode: misinformation and weather.
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Weathered Questions 3.8
In this week's episode: nimbus clouds, the polar vortex, ice color and why wind dies down when it does.
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Weathered Questions 3.7
In this week's episode: cumulus clouds, "out-of-place" winter storms, Nor'easters and bomb cyclones.
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Weathered Questions 3.6
In this week's episode: stratus clouds, why rivers/lakes "steam" on cold days, and snow storm set-ups.
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Weathered Questions 3.5
In this week's episode: cirrus clouds, a warm winter?, and road salt.
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Weathered Questions 3.4
In this week's episode: snow forecast ranges, snow reports, and weather and candy.
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Weathered Questions 3.3
In this week's episode: "boring weather", the Gulf and North America's climate, TV markets and weather gifts.
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Weathered Questions 3.2
In this week's episode: why temperatures drop so quickly in the fall and winter, everything you ever wanted to know about thermometers and the difference between sleet and graupel.
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Weathered Questions 3.1
In this week's episode: the "worst" Iowa weather disasters, has there been an EF-6 tornado, and what the Cali climate has to do with a Superman comic.
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Weathered Questions 2.11
In this week's episode: sunrise/sunset timing, northern lights, big snowflakes and turkey frying.
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Weathered Questions 2.10
In this week's episode: weather related aches and pains, fall colors, snowfall prediction and the accuracy of long range forecasts.
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Weathered Questions 2.9
In this week's episode: foggy glasses and windshields, losing daylight, sleet above freezing and network programming deals.
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Weathered Questions 2.8
In this week's episode: bridges in cold weather, city "domes", the blizzard of 1991, recent EF5 torandoes, and the EF scale.
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