People often confuse between climate and weather- the two really are quite different. Weather describes the atmospheric condition over a short period of time that is from day to day or week to week. While climate describes average conditions over a long period of time. Step out and you experience many facets of weather. Air temperature and pressure, humidity, wind speed and direction, cloud type and cover and the amount and form of precipitation are all the characteristics of the momentary conditions we call weather.
The sun is ultimately responsible for the weather. The rays from sun are absorbed differently by land and water surfaces, equal amounts of solar radiation heat the ground more quickly than they do water. Differential warming in turn causes variations in the temperature and pressure of the overlying masses of air.
As the air mass warms, it rises higher and become lighter into the atmosphere. As the air mass
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These zones are generally found on the east shoreline of the mainlands and are frequently subject to sea tempests in the fall and in pre-fall. The south-eastern part of the United States and large areas of china are the best examples of this kind. Here winter seasons are mild to cool based on latitude. This is the suitable climate for raising crops especially rice.
8. Humid Continental
A great variety in precipitation and temperature characterize this climate and is usually found in Northern Hemisphere continent’s mid-latitude interiors. For example, Manitoba in Canada, Winnipeg are located deep in the North American continent which has a humid continental climate. Air masses are chilled by the Arctic ice and snow flow south over these areas and frequently collide with tropical air masses that are causing change in weather conditions. Usually these areas experience four seasons and the length of each season is determined by the latitude of the particular region.
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2- Air pressure is not usually a constant that’s why usually impacts therefore it usually weather not climate. Some several key areas of the globe have consistent highs and lows that affect the weather and wind patterns having a huge impact on the climate.
In the north, the climate typically consists of hot and humid summers and mild to very severe winters. These severe winters result in freezing temperatures,
4. Places downwind of a large body of water generally have milder seasons than places farther inland at the same latitude.
Temperatures can vary widely between regions (such as the mountains and valleys), and between seasons.
The climate of the interior plains is continental, which basically means that the climate is relatively dry with extremely hot summers and cold winters. The weather is very diverse and may change quickly without warning. In the North of the physiographic region, the winters are long and the summers are short and cool whereas in the South, the the winters are harsh with little precipitation and long summers. Although the humid weather and the flat lands create an ideal place to grow crops like wheat and corn, the growing season itself is quite short, even in the southern region due to the lack of precipitation needed for diversified crops to flourish. The flat prairies east to the Rockies is a meeting ground for Arctic, Pacific and
There are many climates all over the world. Many climates have similar weather patterns. The Marine West Coast climate and the Humid Continental climate are in different regions. Both of these climates are similar yet different.
This discrepancy is explained by the fact that a positive NAO index drives augmented westerly winds across the North Atlantic during winter, causing relatively warm and moist maritime air to move over Europe. Meanwhile, stronger northerly winds over the northwest Atlantic, carry cold air southward over Greenland and north eastern Canada, decreasing land and sea surface temperatures.
The country that I chose to research was Madagascar. Madagascar is an Island country located in the Indian Ocean in South Africa. It is mostly known for its trail of large mountains. It's twice the size as Britain, coming in as the fourth largest island in the world. Mountains, though it is the main attraction, isn't the only thing Madagascar is made up of. It has forests, crystal lakes, massive caverns, and savannah grasslands covering the west part of the island. The south region is made up of sandy deserts. These parts of the island are dry, hot, and tropical while the mountains have a lower temperature from the rest. During the “wet season,” which is from December to march, is when
The North American tundra, the vast treeless plain of the far north, has temperature rises above freezing for only a short period each summer. In the far south there are low-lying areas which are always hot and rainy. The interior of Greenland, always at subzero temperatures is permanently covered by an icecap. It has a variety of climate, from the dry, bitter cold of the Arctic to the steamy heat of the tropics.
Climate change can be defined as a significant change in the “average weather” of any given region sustained in the long-term and can be caused by Earth 's dynamic processes, external forces including variations in sunlight intensity, and also by human activities (USEPA, 2014).
An air mass is a huge body of air in the lower atmosphere that has similar temperature, humidity, and air pressure at any given height. Four major types of air masses influenced the weather in North America: maritime tropical, continental tropical, maritime polar, and continental. Maritime air masses form over the ocean and can be very humid. Continental air masses form over land and drier than maritime air masses. Tropical air masses are warm, form in the tropics, and have low air pressure. Polar air masses are cold, form near the poles, and have high air pressure in North America, most air masses move from west to east. The jet stream is a band of high-speed wind about 10 km above the surface
Surface temperature differences in turn cause pressure differences. A hot surface heats the air above it and the air expands, lowering the air pressure and its density. The resulting horizontal pressure gradient accelerates the air from high to low pressure, creating wind, and Earth's rotation then causes curvature of the flow via the Coriolis effect. The simple systems thus formed can then display emergent behaviour to produce more complex systems and thus other weather phenomena. Large scale examples include the Hadley cell while a smaller scale example would be coastal breezes.
Weather is the combination of temperature, humidity, precipitation, cloudiness, visibility, and wind. In popular usage, climate represents the synthesis of weather; more formally it is the weather of a locality averaged over some period (usually 30 years) plus statistics of weather extremes.
The climate in this area varies quite a bit due to the different levels of
New Zealand’s climate can only be described in one word: unpredictable. Though mostly it has cool to warm temperature, it has microclimates, which is a local atmospheric zone where the climate is different from the surrounding area, owing to its varied topography, and mountain ranges. It has rainfall which is evenly distributed throughout the year in most parts of the country but such is still dependent on the area’s topography as some land area are considered to have borderline oceanic climate or a climate that is intermediate between desert and humid. The country also experiences varied snow falls depending on its parts. Its higher altitude commonly receives ample snow fall while its sea level area receives unpredictable to rare snow fall moments. And