The WeatherJazz® Podcast

After exploring some of the basics of our home planet, it's time to concentrate on those elements of Earth that are so finely tuned that life would not be possible if any one of them was thrown out of whack. This wraps up our look at Earth. Next week, we begin a short series on Earth's moon to wrap up the entire solar system's study.

How and why does the air become so much more humid in Iowa and Illinois compared to Ohio? Let's have a look.

How do our shopping routines and choices change when the weather gets hot and sticky? Some of the answers are not a surprise, but a few of them might be! I spoke briefly to a local grocery store employee about those things he observed when the weather gets sultry.

At 1:30 p.m. Iceland Time, a new volcanic eruption broke through the Earth's crust with thousands of people now watching the feed on several live cameras provided by several sources (click PLAY on any one of them at WeatherJazz®.com Episode #354 ).

It's August! That means we now have two full months of meteorological summer under our belts. Were there any surprises in June or July? Let's have a look. Then, news from Iceland. THOUSANDS of earthquakes shook the Reykjanes Peninsula over the weekend. Is there another eruption coming?

Let's get to know one of our newest meteorologists on the FOX 8 team, Mackenzie Bart.

What other characteristics of Earth make it extraordinarily unique? Let's explore in Part 2 of a 3-part series.

Today's episode features an abridged version of Chapter 2 of Alex Price's book, Never Give Up . I had the privilege of meeting Alex last Sun day when he surprised me with a visit at New Promise Church in Kirtland, a church at which I am serving as interim pastor.

Wanting to leave extra time to cover our favorite planet, Earth, I skipped Earth as we jumped from Venus to Mars this spring. After taking a deeper dive into what makes our favorite star, the sun, work, it's time to see what makes our planetary home so amazing and unique. I'll cover the basics first as a firm foundation for upcoming Science Wednesday episodes.

For much of NEOhio, last night's rains were a sight for brown and crunchy lawns. Let's take a closer look at the summer rainfall departures thus far.

Do you have a good handle on music from the late 1970s and early 1980s? Let's see if you can do what Shazam could NOT!

In my continuing series on the study of our own solar system on Science Wednesday, let's take a look at something we've observed for millennia but only now beginning to see a connection to Earth's weather and climate system. It's the world of sunspots! Today on weatherJazz®!

Now that we are approaching the halfway point of meteorological summer, let's see how our soil moisture is doing across the USA. This parameter may help us to see what August may look like.

A few weeks ago, one of my "lifer friends," Bob Gilmore, sent me a radio air check of a college radio show I did at my college in Vermont in 1980. My attention was grabbed by a song that I did not recognize. Worse yet, Shazam couldn't tell me what it was either! Leave it to a teenager to solve the mystery. Let me play DJ and spin that record for you. Plus, I'll read Chapter 1 of a wonderful book a...

Now that we've re-established some of our sun's fundamental properties, it's time to dig into some of the sun's "magical" properties that are not as well known but make it a unique star, the kind for which we are grateful!

It's Science Wednesday - and we go from the hypothesized outermost reaches of the solar system, the Oort Cloud (Episode #339) right to the center of it with our first look at everyone's favorite star, the Sun!

June has been loaded with many quirky weather changes in the Ohio Valley. Let's explore those high-amplitude changes and what it means as we get ready for July and August.

I attended college in northeastern Vermont from 1977-1981. One of the things I enjoyed was being a part of the college's radio station, WWLR-FM, then only ten watts (now it's broadcasting at 3,000 watts, an increase that happened shortly after I graduated). I was not new to the world of radio, however. My radio "career" started at age 15 when I started providing weekend weather forecasts on my hom...

Time to continue our quest to unearth more about the farthest reaches of our solar system. Let's explore what astronomers call the Oort Cloud, a theorized region just beyond our solar system from which comets may originate.

WJW morning meteorologist Scott Sabol rejoins me to highlight a study he did on summertime humidity.

Listen in as I take LIUVE questions on the FOX 8 Weather Facebook Page (recorded Thursday evening from the WeatherJazz® Studios.

What in the world is beyond the orbit of Neptune and Pluto? It's the Kuiper Belt! It wasn't discovered until 1992, but we have since discovered thousands of Kuiper Belt objects. Let's talk about them, today on WeatherJazz®.

It's WeatherJazz®'s second most popular segment behind the big winter weather reveal every autumn... the SUMMER outlook! Let's dig into the weeds of long-range forecasting with weekday morning meteorologist, Scott Sabol.

The USA may see quite a display of meteors Monday night to early Tuesday morning. Let's discover WHY that is along with some long-range clues of how June may pan out.

Listen to (and WATCH) WeatherJazz® host André Bernier entertain LIVE questions on the FOX 8 Weather Facebook Page.