Podcast
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 conversations, helping you feel more informed, prepared, and maybe even a little in awe of the atmosphere around us.
Got a question on your radar? Send it our way (weatheredquestions@gmail.com) and be sure to subscribe and tune in for the answer.
- Earth Sciences chart
- #155
- Episodes
- 64
- Releases
- Weekly
- Typical length
- 27 min
- On air since
- 2025
- Latest episode
- 1 week ago
Episodes
64 episodes, newest first
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27 min
Weathered Questions 6.7
Season 6, Episode 7
Show notes
In this week's episode: sun dogs, shrinking clouds, fall temperature swings, and the science behind cold weather folklore.
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27 min
Weathered Questions 6.6
Season 6, Episode 6
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In this week's episode: spring vs. summer temps and daylight, steamy lakes, frost vs. freeze, frosty fields vs. trees.
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28 min
Weathered Questions 6.5
Season 6, Episode 5
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In this week's episode: gust fronts on radar, air pressure, tire pressure, weather baloons, radar after sunset.
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26 min
Weathered Questions 6.4
Season 6, Episode 4
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In this week's episode: September weather extremes and how they relate to weather around the rest of the country, hurricane formation water temperature, evaporation.
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27 min
Weathered Questions 6.3
Season 6, Episode 3
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In this week's episode: current conditions on the weather app, wooly bear caterpillars, fall colors, and El Nino.
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26 min
Weathered Questions 6.2
Season 6, Episode 2
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In this week's episode: weather balloons, lightning, hard weather to predict and early frost.
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25 min
Weathered Questions 6.1
Season 6, Episode 1
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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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29 min
Weathered Questions 5.11
Season 5, Episode 11
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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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29 min
Weathered Questions 5.10
Season 5, Episode 10
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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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27 min
Weathered Questions 5.9
Season 8, Episode 9
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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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26 min
Weathered Questions 5.8
Season 5, Episode 8
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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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28 min
Weathered Questions 5.7
Season 5, Episode 7
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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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27 min
Weathered Questions 5.6
Season 5, Episode 6
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In this week's episode: normal temperatures, dew point, summer hail, and areal floods.
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28 min
Weathered Questions 5.5
Season 5, Episode 5
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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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26 min
Weathered Questions 5.4
Season 5, Episode 4
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In this week's episode: cyclical weather patterns, funnel clouds and rotation, watches & warnings polygons, outdoor warning sirens and WEAs.
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27 min
Weathered Questions 5.3
Season 5, Episode 3
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In this week's episode: thunder, US vs European weather, El Nino and rain or drought.
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28 min
Weathered Questions 5.2
Season 5, Episode 2
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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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26 min
Weathered Questions 5.1
Season 5, Episode 1
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In this week's episode: heat, humidity, heat waves and mugginess and rare weather phenomena.
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29 min
Weathered Questions 4.12
Season 4, Episode 12
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In this week's episode: cloud iridescence, weather experiments, CoCoRahs weather reporting, warmth of sunshine and outflow boundaries.
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27 min
Weathered Questions 4.11
Season 4, Episode 11
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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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