WEATHER:Its Effect On The Environment

Weather has proven to have both positive and negative effects on the environment. This is usually due to the intensity of the weather.

• Ex. If it rains for about two hours the river's water levels will remain the same,but if it rains for days even week the water levels will most likely increase. This does not mean that more water is on earth, but that the drastic amount of rain will cause a flood.

Weather: Its effect on the Environment

Weather

• Weather is the state of the atmosphere with respect to wind, temperature, cloudiness, moisture, pressure, etc.
• It is believed that weather and climate are the same, when in fact they are different but some what different. Weather changes in short periods of time( minutes to hours), while climate changes over a long period of time( decades to centuries).

Different Aspects of Weather

Effects of Weather

In other words...

Hurricane

What is a Hurricane?

A storm with a violent wind, in particular a tropical cyclone in the Caribbean.

They usually have a wind of force 12 on the Beaufort scale (equal to or exceeding 64 knots or 74 mph).

Familiar aspects of weather include temperature, precipitation, clouds, and wind. Severe weather conditions include hurricanes, tornadoes, blizzards, and droughts.

Clouds

What are clouds?-

A cloud is a large collection of very tiny droplets of water or ice crystals. The droplets are so small and light that they can float in the air.

Types of Clouds

What types of clouds are in the sky?

• Stratus clouds are uniform grayish clouds that often cover the entire sky. They resemble fog that does not reach the ground. Usually no precipitation falls from stratus clouds, but sometimes they may drizzle.
• Altocumulus clouds are middle level clouds that are made of water droplets and appear as gray, puffy masses, sometimes rolled out in parallel waves or bands. The appearance of these clouds on a warm, humid summer morning often means thunderstorms may occur by late afternoon.
• Cirrus clouds are thin, wispy clouds blown by high winds into long streamers. They are considered "high clouds" forming above 6000 m (20,000 ft). Cirrus clouds usually move across the sky from west to east. They generally mean fair to pleasant weather.
• Cumulus clouds are puffy clouds that sometimes look like pieces of floating cotton. The base of each cloud is often flat and may be only 1000 m (330 ft) above the ground. The top of the cloud has rounded towers. When the top of the cumulus resembles the head of a cauliflower, it is called cumulus congestus or towering cumulus

Precipitation

Tornadoes

What is a tornado?

A mobile, destructive vortex of violently rotating winds having the appearance of a funnel-shaped cloud and advancing beneath a large.

• This is any form of water particles - liquid or solid-that falls from the atmosphere and reaches the ground. One of the most harmful forms if acid rain.

References

Drought

Temperature

• http://eo.ucar.edu/webweather/cloud3.html
• http://www.weatherwizkids.com/weather-clouds.htm
• http://www.epa.gov/acidrain/effects/
• http://environment.nationalgeographic.com/environment/global-warming/acid-rain-overview/
• http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/weather
• google images

What is a drought?

A prolonged period of abnormally low precipitation; a shortage of water resulting from this.

Blizzard

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Jennel Shaschine Bryce

What is a Blizzard?

A severe snowstorm with high winds and low visibility. This just means that there is large quantities of snow.

Temperature is a measure of the heat content of a body (the atmosphere in the case of weather). The molecular motion of a substance creates energy, which can be measured in terms of the heat it generates. Air, water, and soil can all be measured for temperature.

Wind

How does wind happen?

Wind is simply the result of the differences of pressure in the atmosphere. A balloon loses its air because the higher inside pressure finds less pressure on the outside and flows off.