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Weather With Enthusiasm !

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Weather With Enthusiasm — brought to you by Kol Simcha Productions.

When there is proper funding for this podcast (either through membership or listening or listeners through advertisements ) the following is the schedule:
Daily morning briefings for Jewish communities in Chicago (West Rogers Park), Borough Park (Brooklyn), Baltimore, Lakewood (NJ), and Jerusalem, Israel. Each episode includes halachic times (zmanim), a plain-English weather forecast, weather history, and family-friendly kids activities.

Historical Weather Podcast: Deep-dive episodes on the greatest extreme weather events in history — new episodes every Tuesday and Thursday at 7 AM CDT.

Hosted by Kol Simcha Productions.

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  • 596 DAM Heat Dome centered over Nashville Tennessee today June 30th 2026

    596 DAM Heat Dome centered over Nashville Tennessee today June 30th 2026
    Jun 30 2026
    Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/weather-with-enthusiasm--4911017/support.

    Weather with Enthusiasm is produced by Kol Simcha Productions.
    New episodes drop daily (B'N)— a morning forecast at 7 AM and historical deep dives Tuesdays and Thursdays.
    Contact: kolsimchaproductions@outlook.com

    Historical content is thoroughly researched and factually verified. After it has been factually verified it often will say so in the description. Should you find any mistakes, please email kolsimchaproductions@outlook.com so we can look into it and correct it.

    Not affiliated with any government agency or academic institution. Presented for educational and entertainment purposes — with meaning.

    Support the show — exclusive bonus episodes available to subscribers for just $2/month at spreaker.com/organization/kol-simcha
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    5 Min.
  • The 1995 Midwest Heat Wave: America's Deadliest Heat Disaster

    The 1995 Midwest Heat Wave: America's Deadliest Heat Disaster
    Jun 30 2026
    The 1995 Midwest Heat Wave: America's Deadliest Heat Disaster

    In July 1995, a stagnant high-pressure system settled over the central United States and refused to move. What followed was one of the deadliest weather disasters in American history — a four-day heat siege that killed more than 739 people in Chicago alone and over 1,021 across the region.

    KEY FACTS:
    - Dates: July 12–16, 1995
    - Peak temperature Chicago: 106°F (41°C)
    - Peak heat index at Midway Airport: 124–125°F
    - Official NWS heat index at O'Hare: 119°F
    - Appleton, WI air temperature: 101°F (38.3°C)

    Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/weather-with-enthusiasm--4911017/support.

    Weather with Enthusiasm is produced by Kol Simcha Productions.
    New episodes drop daily (B'N)— a morning forecast at 7 AM and historical deep dives Tuesdays and Thursdays.
    Contact: kolsimchaproductions@outlook.com

    Historical content is thoroughly researched and factually verified. After it has been factually verified it often will say so in the description. Should you find any mistakes, please email kolsimchaproductions@outlook.com so we can look into it and correct it.

    Not affiliated with any government agency or academic institution. Presented for educational and entertainment purposes — with meaning.

    Support the show — exclusive bonus episodes available to subscribers for just $2/month at spreaker.com/organization/kol-simcha
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    4 Min.
  • The Great Smog of London: When Coal Killed a City — December 1952

    The Great Smog of London: When Coal Killed a City — December 1952
    Jun 30 2026
    The Great Smog of London: December 1952Weather With Enthusiasm — Episode 11Historical Extreme Weather Series━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━EPISODE SUMMARY━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━Five days in December 1952 turned London into a death trap. A stalled high-pressure system — an anticyclone — trapped millions of tonnes of coal smoke, sulfur dioxide, and acid particulates over the city in a dense, yellow-green fog that reduced visibility to near zero and killed thousands. This episode covers the meteorology, the human toll, the government cover-up, and the law that changed the world.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━KEY FACTS━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━Dates: December 5–9, 1952Location: London, EnglandDeath toll: ~4,000 (1952 government estimate) | ~12,000 (modern research, 2004)Injuries/illnesses: ~100,000Duration: 5 days━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━METEOROLOGICAL DETAILS━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━• December 4: anticyclone settled over windless London — created a temperature inversion• Cool stagnant air trapped below warmer air — zero wind to disperse pollutants• Daily pollutant output during the smog: 1,000 tonnes smoke particles, 140 tonnes HCl, 14 tonnes fluorine compounds, ~370 tonnes SO2 (converted to ~800 tonnes H2SO4)• Sulfuric acid formed in fog droplets — effectively acid fog breathed by millions• Coal sources: home fireplaces, Fulham/Battersea/Bankside/Greenwich/West Ham power stations, diesel buses, steam locomotives━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━GOVERNMENT RESPONSE & LEGACY━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━• Initial government report (never finalized) attributed deaths to influenza• E.T. Wilkins, Atmospheric Pollution officer, found ~12,000 total deaths through mortality tracking• Feb 1953: Labour MP Marcus Lipton raised 6,000 deaths + 25,000 sickness claims in Parliament• 1956: British Parliament passed the Clean Air Act — world's first comprehensive national air pollution law• Established smoke-free zones, restricted coal burning, offered grants to switch to gas/oil/electricity• Updated in 1968 — became global template for environmental regulation━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━SOURCES━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━• Wikipedia: Great Smog of London — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Smog_of_London• Britannica: Great Smog of London — https://www.britannica.com/event/Great-Smog-of-London• National Geographic: The Great Smog woke the world to coal dangers — https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/great-smog-of-london-1952-coal-air-pollution-environmental-disaster• London Museum: The Great Smog of 1952 — https://www.londonmuseum.org.uk/collections/london-stories/the-great-smog-of-1952/• Met Office: The Great Smog of 1952 — https://weather.metoffice.gov.uk/learn-about/weather/case-studies/great-smog• Texas A&M GeoNews: London Fog 1952 research — https://geonews.tamu.edu/news/2016/11/london-fog-1952.php━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━HASHTAGS━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━#GreatSmog #London1952 #WeatherHistory #AirPollution #CleanAirAct #ExtremeWeather #WeatherWithEnthusiasmNew episodes every Tuesday and Thursday.Morning forecasts every day at 7 AM on Spreaker.Support the show: $5/monthBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/weather-with-enthusiasm--4911017/support.Weather with Enthusiasm is produced by Kol Simcha Productions.New episodes drop daily (B'N)— a morning forecast at 7 AM and historical deep dives Tuesdays and Thursdays. Contact: kolsimchaproductions@outlook.comHistorical content is thoroughly researched and factually verified. After it has been factually verified it often will say so in the description. Should you find any mistakes, please email kolsimchaproductions@outlook.com so we can look into it and correct it. Not affiliated with any government agency or academic institution. Presented for educational and entertainment...
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    4 Min.
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