Roger Hill's Weather Classroom

Roger Hill's Weather Classroom

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Roger Hill's Weather Classroom episodes

  • Tropical Cyclones Part 1
    On this episode, Roger talks about the Sapphire Simpson Scale, a way to categorize a storm based on its maximum sustained wind speeds. Anything ranked a category 3 or higher is considered a major hurricane.
    5 min
  • A Time Machine Through Global Temperature Averages
    Radio Vermont Forecaster Roger Hill looks at how temperature averages have changed since the end of the last ice age when compared to data from 1961-1990 and how the earth's temperature affected early and modern humans. Then he looks forward, past 1990 to today and beyond. What does our temperature trend mean for the planet and humans in the next 1-3 decades?
    23 min
  • All About Wind
    Wind is the movement of air that develops due to temperature differences in different parts of the world. The differences in temperature result in differences in density which results in differences in pressure. Wind results when these pressure differences try to normalize in an endless cycle of movement. Roger Hill explains the pressure gradient and what causes changes in wind speed and direction.
    8 min
  • Multiple Precipitation Types or Mixed Bag Precipitation
    Roger details how varying air and ground temperatures at different levels of the atmosphere can produce interesting forms of precipitation such as sleet, hail, or freezing rain, or a combination of precipitation types. Ever hear a forecast call for a mixed bag precipitation? This is what they're talking about.
    6 min
  • Astronomical Equinox and Solstice
    Roger talks about Equinox and Solstice, astronomic events that humans have observed for a very long time. Why don't we see exactly 12 hours between sunrise and sunset during equinox? Roger talks about how latitude comes into the equation.
    6 min
  • Clouds: Reading the Sky
    This week Roger goes over the different types of clouds, where they usually sit in the atmosphere, and how forecasters can tell what's going on in the atmosphere by looking at them.
    12 min

About Roger Hill's Weather Classroom

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This podcast series explores all things atmospheric pertaining to our world, Vermont and locally. It will also include other topics about the planet Earth such as the Geomagnetic Field and trends in…