Weather & Climate
Weather- is the hour 2 hour day2 day of earths atmospere.
Climate- is the average weather conditions of a place taken over a long period of time.
What causes weather???
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Tmepeture
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Sunshine
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Precipitaion
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Wind
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Air Pressure
How to Measure Weather???
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Air tempeture is measuredeusing a maximura thermometer.
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measured witha recorder that tells us how much sunshine there will be in a day.
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is moisture that comes from the atmosphere (rain, snow, hail) it is measured by a ram guage.
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is meaured in two ways ( wind direction & wind speed). Wind direction is meausuerd with awind vine and Wind speed is measured with anemometer.
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measured by using a borometerand recorded using a borograph.
Types of Extreme Weather.....
some types of extreme weather are hurricanes, blizzards,droughts, floods,tornadoes.
Hurricane Katrina was one of the deadliest hurricanes ever to hit the United States. An estimated 1,833 people died in the hurricane and the flooding that followed in late August 2005, and millions of others were left homeless along the Gulf Coast and in New Orleans
On May 27, 1997, multiple tornadoes swept through Williamson and Travis counties in central Texas. The tornadoes caused 32 injuries, 29 deaths, and an estimated $20 million in personal and commercial insured losses.
The emergency regulations, which require some communities to trim water use by as much as 36 percent, were approved unanimously late Tuesday by the State Water Resources Control Board weeks after Democratic Governor Jerry Brown stood in a drying mountain meadow and ordered statewide rationing.
“Blizzard of 1977” dumped about 7 in. of new snow on top of 30–35 in. already on the ground. With winds gusting to 70 mph, drifts were as high as 30 ft. Death toll reached 29, and seven western N.Y. counties were declared a national disaster area.
In late November 2010, rain began falling in Queensland. On 25 December of the same year, Cyclone Tasha crossed the northern Queensland coast and brought flooding to major river systems.
Climate...
The classical period is 30 years, as defined by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). These quantities are most often surface variables such as temperature, precipitation, and wind. Climate in a wider sense is the state, including a statistical description, of the climate system.
Types of Climate...
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Tropical Wet
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Tropical Monsoon
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Tropical Wet & Dry
Tropical Wet is only found along the equator, usually within 25 degrees of the equator because. Large areas of Tropical Wet are found in Brazil, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Indonesia, and the Philippines.
Tropical Wet/Dry is found near the equator, usually on the outer edges of Tropical Wet climate areas. The largest areas of Tropical Wet/Dry are found in Africa, Brazil, and India
Tropical monsoon climates have monthly mean temperatures above 18 °C in every month of the year and feature wet and dry seasons
