Weather phobias, from clouds to snow

Can you really have a fear of clouds? If you do, you've got nephophobia.

Weather phobias, which affect about 1 in 10 Americans, include fear of thunderstorms (astrophobia), hurricanes (lilapsophobia), snow (chionophobia), cold (cryophobia), wind (ancraophobia), and rain (ombrophobia).

In the streaming audio below, I chat with Jill Coleman, a geographer from Ball State University, who authored a recent study "Weathering the Storm: Revisiting Severe-Weather Phobia" that was published in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society.

Find out more about weather phobias in the audio above.

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