Weather Prediction and Relative Topics regarding climate

Weather Prediction

Weather forecasts are pretty neat, don't you think? But there are times when your television is out of order, or your internet-connection just does not want to cooperate. Thankfully, there are other ways of finding out what the weather gods have in mind for us. Here are some ways of doing so.

Clouds
Clouds are one of the easiest ways of predicting weather. If you look up at the sky, you can see how the clouds have all kinds of shapes, and how they move around in certain directions.

Warm Fronts and Cold Fronts
The term “front” actually comes from war, where armies would meet along the battleline, also called a front. The same can be applied to weather, where the two masses of air with different temperatures battle against each other.

A cold front is usually much denser than a warm front, so it will slide under the warm front, forcing it upwards.



Q&A
“What type of weather would normally occur in an area with high pressure?”

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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:24px;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">No precipitation (rainfall, snowfall, etc.) whatsoever. This, of course, <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;line-height:1.15;">renders the weather a lot drier than other areas, and also lowers the overall quality of the <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;line-height:1.15;">air.

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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">“Why is Norway relatively warm, although it is in a polar region?”

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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:24px;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Norway is heavily affected by the Gulf Stream, which is a warm, powerful ocean current originating at the tip of Florida. This, and the fact that Norway lies at sea-level, is what prevents the country from being much colder.

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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:24px;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">If you were to look at the East and West of the landmasses, as opposed to the country’s <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);white-space:pre-wrap;">borders, you would notice that there isn’t much of a difference in the amount of rainfall. <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);white-space:pre-wrap;">However, the difference is that water evaporates from the ocean outside of Norway, then <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);white-space:pre-wrap;">as they move in across the country and the mountains, the clouds will begin to <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;line-height:1.15;">precipitate as they gain latitude, resulting in increased rainfall in this side of Norway. The <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;line-height:1.15;">same thing would happen in Sweden, only here it will be to the East.

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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">“How come Siberia is so cold?”

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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:24px;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Siberia lies in an area called the Northern Hemisphere’s “Cold Pole”, and because they <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;line-height:1.15;">are not as lucky as the Norwegians to have a Gulf Stream to keep them warm during the <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;line-height:1.15;">winters, temperatures can hit as low as -67.8 degrees Celsius.

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