What is the difference between weather and climate?

WEATHER: Weather is basically the way the atmosphere is behaving, mainly with respect to its effects upon life and human activities. Most people think of weather in terms of temperature, humidity, precipitation, cloudiness, brightness, visibility, wind, and atmospheric pressure, as in high and low pressure. In most places, weather can change from minute-to-minute, hour-to-hour, day-to-day, and season-to-season. CLIMATE: Climate is the description of the long-term pattern of weather in a particular area.

Some scientists define climate as the average weather for a particular region and time period, usually taken over 30-years. When scientists talk about climate, they're looking at averages of precipitation, temperature, humidity, sunshine, wind velocity, phenomena such as fog, frost, and hail storms, and other measures of the weather that occur over a long period in a particular place.

For example, after looking at rain gauge data, lake and reservoir levels, and satellite data, scientists can tell if during a summer, an area was drier than average. If it continues to be drier than normal over the course of many summers, than it would likely indicate a change in the climate.

Weather Disturbances are disturbances in the weather such as: 1. Typhoons 2. Hurricanes 3. Global Warming 4. Tornadoes 5. Cyclones 6. Storms

1. WEATHER DISTURBANCESPREPARED BY: HURRICANE, TROPICAL CYCLONE, TYPHOON, AARON LOPEZ TORNADO, CYCLONE, STORM

They are typically mid or upper atmospheric troughs of low pressure that are embedded in the general wind flow of the atmosphere. A weather disturbance is a general term that describes any pulse of energy moving through the atmosphere. They are important in that they can act as focusing mechanisms for storm formation, or even to intensify low pressure systems.2. What is a weather disturbance?

3. 3. Cyclone 1. Tropical Cyclone Summary2. Tornado 4. Storm A Tropical Cyclone is accompanied by torrential rains. A Tropical Cyclone draws energy from the sea surface and maintaining its strength as long as it remains over warm water. An Intense circular storm that originates over warm tropical oceans

and is characterized by low atmospheric pressure, high winds and heavy rains.4. Tropical Cyclone/Hurricane/Typhoon

This strong winds occur in all continents except Antarctica. Tornadoes that hit a populated area causes fantastic destruction and great loss of life, mainly from flying debris and collapsing structures. Tornado is a small-diameter column of violently rotating air developed within a convective cloud and in contact with the ground. 5. Tornado

If there are two cyclones that are near and interacting with each other, they cause the Fujiwhara Effect. This winds are generally associated with rain or snow. Cyclone is any large system of winds that circulates about a centre of low atmospheric pressure in a counter clockwise direction north of the Equator and in a clockwise direction to the south.6. Cyclone

This generally forms from Low-Pressure Area (LPA) In meteorology, storm is restricted to a cyclone with a strong low pressure center, strong winds, accompanied by heavy precipitation, lightning and thunder. Violent atmospheric disturbance, characterized by low barometric pressure, cloud cover, precipitation, strong winds, and possibly lightning and thunder.7. Storm

Tornado is a small-diameter column of violent air within a convective cloud in contact with the ground. Tropical Cyclone is an intense circular storm that originates over warm tropical oceans and is characterized by low atmospheric pressure, high winds and heavy rains. Weather disturbance is a pulse of energy moving through the atmosphere. They are embedded in the general wind flow of the atmosphere Storm generally forms from LPA Storm is a violent atmospheric disturbance, characterized by low barometric pressure, cloud cover, precipitation, strong winds, and possibly lightning and thunder. Cyclone is a general term for any large system of winds that circulates about a center of low atmospheric pressure accompanied by rain or snow.9. Summary(cont.)