Definition of Weather

The state of the atmosphere in a certain period of time

Meteorological Weather, also designated as atmospheric weather or weather conditions, will be the state of the atmosphere at a certain moment, meanwhile, there are several factors which will be evaluated when having to determine an atmospheric situation x of this or that place. The atmosphere is plausible to suffer various events, which, as we said, take place at a certain time and place, among them are the temperature, the atmospheric pressure, humidity, among others.

Now, it is necessary to mention that the meteorological weather will specifically involve all the phenomena that take place in one or more consecutive days, that is, by this we mean that meteorological weather turns out to be the activity of the atmosphere of a given place and in the short term

Humidity, pressure, rains, winds, temperature, factors that influence the determination of meteorological weather

So, focusing on the main contingencies that affect the atmosphere, we can say that the weather will be affected by:

humidity, either absolute (amount of water vapor per unit volume of air present in the environment) or relative (the amount of this vapor present in the air), the rains (precipitation of water falling from the clouds in the form of drops), winds (those air currents that occur in the atmosphere as a result of the meeting of different air pressures belonging to different areas)), atmospheric pressure (the force which exerts a column of air that has the same height as the atmosphere over one unit of the earth's surface) and temperature (that magnitude that measures the sensation that each of us have about the heat or cold that the bodies of the environment have).

When each one of the moments turns out to be more or less recurrent, both in time and in its duration, it is it will call type of weather, which can be rainy, cloudy, stormy, hot or humid, among other alternatives.

Man's interest in meteorological weather

Human beings have always been interested in knowing details of the weather in the place they are and this is so basically because many activities that men perform depend on the weather or may affect them in some way way. But many people are also interested in him to know how he should dress in the morning and thus not suffer cold, or failing that, heat the rest of the day.

This interest has led to the development of sophisticated tools over time to predict the meteorological weather of a region in the short term and also to know the weather data up to date.

The media are the main disseminators of the state of the weather and it is through specialists in meteorology, meteorologists, who inform the public about the contingencies that the weather may present in a day or in a week.
The interest that time has for people is such that applications for mobile telephony have even been developed that allow the user to have at the moment and on their phone the weather data of their city and those of any other place in the world.

We must also say that the climate change has generated a special interest in the knowledge of meteorological weather because it is common for climatic phenomena of great intensity that can cause serious problems to cities and their inhabitants, such is the case of an extended rainstorm that causes floods.

Differentiation between climate and meteorological time

Although the concepts of weather and weather conditions are used interchangeably, in reality, each one refers to a different question. As we said, the state of the weather is the current situation that the atmosphere manifests in a certain place and that will be characterized by a combination of various factors humidity, pressure, rainfall, cloudiness, while, the climate, refers to the set of atmospheric data that have been gathered in a period of five years at least and that will then allow us to determine the type of climate that prevails in a region determined.

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