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Why is it important to know weather?
Weather warnings are important forecasts because they are used to protect life and property. Forecasts based on temperature and precipitation are important to agriculture, and therefore to traders within commodity markets. On an everyday basis, many use weather forecasts to determine what to wear on a given day.
How weather is created?
Weather on Earth is caused by heat from the sun and movement of the air. Moisture or water vapor (gas) in the air also affects the weather. The amount of moisture in the air affects how clouds form and whether the clouds produce fog, rain, or snow, as well as extreme weather, such as storms and blizzards.
What is the weather short answer?
Weather is the day-to-day state of the atmosphere, and its short-term variation in minutes to weeks. People generally think of weather as the combination of temperature, humidity, precipitation, cloudiness, visibility, and wind.
What is weather short note?
Weather is the state of the atmosphere, describing for example the degree to which it is hot or cold, wet or dry, calm or stormy, clear or cloudy. On Earth, most weather phenomena occur in the lowest layer of the planet’s atmosphere, the troposphere, just below the stratosphere.
Why is dew point important in weather forecasts?
The dew point is useful in weather forecasts for a number of reasons: Air temperature must fall to the dew point. That means that the dew point temperature is always less than the air temperature. Also, air temperatures can drop no lower than the dew point.
What is the meaning of pop in weather forecasts?
Mathematically, PoP is defined as follows: PoP = C x A where “C” = the confidence that precipitation will occur somewhere in the forecast area, and where “A” = the percent of the area that will receive measureable precipitation, if it occurs at all. So… in the case of the forecast above,…
What’s the dew point in a dry place?
Dew Point Characteristics. So, to give you some examples, a very dry place with low humidity, like the desert I live in, would have very different dew points than a humid place with high humidity, like Florida. If it was 90 degrees in the desert, a typical dew point would be less than 50 degrees.
Where does dew point form in the atmosphere?
This point is reached close to the surface, where dew is formed on plants and objects as a result. Hence the term, dew point. The same process happens in the atmosphere where the formation of clouds is the result of the temperature dropping to below dew point level.