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What is the difference weather and weathering?

Weather is how hot or cold it is right now. People tend to get confused with weather and climate. Climate is how the weather changes each day. Weathering is the breaking down … (MORE)

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What is weather?

Weather is how nature manifests its atmospheric conditions in our surroundings. A good example is rain, or a very windy day. In many cases it can be more violent like hurrican…es or tornadoes. Weather is the state of the atmosphere, to the degree that it is hot or cold, wet or dry, calm or stormy, clear or cloudy. [1] Most weather phenomena occur in the troposphere, [2] [3] just below thestratosphere. Weather generally refers to day-to-day temperature and precipitation activity, whereasclimate is the term for the average atmospheric conditions over longer periods of time. [4] When used without qualification, "weather" is understood to be the weather of Earth. Weather is driven by air pressure (temperature and moisture) differences between one place and another. These pressure and temperature differences can occur due to the sun angle at any particular spot, which varies by latitude from the tropics. The strong temperature contrast between polar and tropical air gives rise to the jet stream. Weather systems in the mid-latitudes, such as extratropical cyclones, are caused by instabilities of the jet stream flow. Because the Earth's axis is tilted relative to its orbital plane, sunlight is incident at different angles at different times of the year. On Earth's surface, temperatures usually range Â±40 Â°C (â40 Â°F to 100 Â°F) annually. Over thousands of years, changes in Earth's orbit affect the amount and distribution of solar energy received by the Earth and influence long-term climate and global climate change. Surface temperature differences in turn cause pressure differences. Higher altitudes are cooler than lower altitudes due to differences in compressional heating. Weather forecasting is the application of science and technology to predict the state of the atmosphere for a future time and a given location. The atmosphere is a chaotic system, so small changes to one part of the system can grow to have large effects on the system as a whole. Human attempts to control the weather have occurred throughout human history, and there is evidence that human activity such as agriculture and industry has inadvertently modified weather patterns. Studying how the weather works on other planets has been helpful in understanding how weather works on Earth. A famous landmark in the Solar System, Jupiter's Great Red Spot , is an anticyclonic storm known to have existed for at least 300 years. However, weather is not limited to planetary bodies. A star's corona is constantly being lost to space, creating what is essentially a very thin atmosphere throughout the Solar System. The movement of mass ejected from the Sun is known as the solar wind. short term variation in atmosphere. (MORE)

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What it is weathering?

weathering is the decay of the rocks of the earth's crust to the exposure to the atmosphere i.e., a process by which the rocks exposed on the surface get broken up into smalle… (MORE)

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Why do we have weather?

Because the sun heats up the earth, causing differing air pressures, creating wind, rain, and all other forms of weather.

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Why do they call weather weather?

There are a number of continental words of similar spelling and pronunciation. Old English was 'weder', Old Dutch was 'weder' and German 'wedar'. Old Norse was 'vethr'. The wo… (MORE)

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What is weathering?

the natural process by which atmospheric and eviromental agents ,such as wind,rain, and decomposite rocks "Weathering" (proper spelling) is the breaking down of natu… (MORE)

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What is the difference between weather and weathering?

weather is precipitation rain, hail, snow, ice,e.g. weathering is the wearing away of rock

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How do weather observations predict weather?

Modern meteorologists use the numerical weather prediction method. This method uses mathematical simulations of the earth to predict the weather. A number of simulations a… (MORE)

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Where do the weather forecast get the weather from?

Weather forecasting is based on past observations, and (more recently) computer simulations to predict how the weather will change over the next few days. For example, previou… (MORE)

Suzanne (Zanbabe) Benner

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How can the weather contribute to the weathering of rocks?

Well, that's kind of the whole point, right? Weather slowly wears down rock. It isn't discernible in the short term, but over a long period, you can see how sun, wind, rai… (MORE)