Define Weather?

Answer 1

Define Weather

Answer 2

I'll start by saying that putting a question mark on the end of sentence does not make it a question. If you want to know the difference between climate and weather, you should ask that. Here is the definition of climate from the Glossary of Meteorology, Second edition: "The slowly varying aspects of the atmosphere–hydrosphere–land surface system. It is typically characterized in terms of suitable averages of the climate system over periods of a month or more, taking into consideration the variability in time of these averaged quantities. Climatic classifications include the spatial variation of these time-averaged variables. Beginning with the view of local climate as little more than the annual course of long-term averages of surface temperature and precipitation, the concept of climate has broadened and evolved in recent decades in response to the increased understanding of the underlying processes that determine climate and its variability." The Glossary does not define weather, but it is pretty much the instantaneous state of the atmosphere--it's what you experience when you walk outside Personally I study both. I would never consider studying climate without also having a good understanding of weather, so even though my Ph.D. may technically have come from studying "climate science," I have also spent my time studying weather (dynamic meteorology, synoptic meteorology tropical meteorology, etc.) There are certainly some meteorologists that study weather without paying much attention to climate, and there are climate scientists that don't study weather very much. To a large extent distinctions are artificial, though. However, while there are gradations between the fields, that does not mean that the techniques for studying them are the same. If I take a numerical weather prediction model, the output from the model is essentially useless past the first couple of weeks for studying weather--but that very same model may produce useful results when studying climate--because the goals are different. I hear those that deny climate science constantly claiming that meteorologists don't believe in AGW. This is complete nonsense and I think the cause is that people who I would say are NOT meteorologists, but are instead radio and television weather personalities, have expressed such views. I'm talking about people like John Coleman and Anthony Watts, who are not trained as scientists but like to claim the title because they go on the air and tell people whether they should carry an umbrella the next day. Professional meteorologists (those with degrees that do research in the field) by and large understand the cause and consequences of AGW.

Answer 3

Weather is a term that encompasses phenomena in the atmosphere of a planet. The term usually refers the activity of these phenomena over short periods, such as hours or days. Average atmospheric conditions over significantly longer periods of time is known as climate.

When used without qualification, "weather" is understood to be the weather of Earth.Weather most often results from temperature differences from one place to another. On large scales, temperature differences occur mainly because areas closer to Earth's equator receive more energy per unit area from the Sun than do regions closer to Earth's poles. On local scales, temperature differences can occur because different surfaces (such as oceans, forests, or ice sheets) have differing physical characteristics such as reflectivity, roughness, or moisture content.

Answer 4

Weather is the condition of the atmosphere over a given place at a given point of time

Answer 5

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Weather is a term that encompasses phenomena in the atmosphere of a planet. The term usually refers the activity of these phenomena over short periods, such as hours or days. Average atmospheric conditions over significantly longer periods of time is known as climate.

When used without qualification, "weather" is understood to be the weather of Earth.

Answer 6

Weather: The state of the atmosphere at a given time and place, with respect to variables such as temperature, moisture, wind velocity, and barometric pressure.

Or even better it is the opposite of what your tv meteorologist says it is going to be!

Answer 7

Weather is that visitor that comes and goes.

Climate is a permanent resident .

So that way you can define

Answer 8

Weather: the state of the atmosphere with respect to wind, temperature, cloudiness, moisture, pressure, etc.

Answer 9

The phenomena of the known environment. Major factors include but are not limited to, latitude and longitude, humidity, temperature, and seasons.

Answer 10

Continuity in the climate for a particular period is weather as we know
1)Summer
2)Winter
3)spring
4)autum