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Understanding Weather and Climate Patterns Worldwide

Explore the diverse weather phenomena like hurricanes, tornadoes, blizzards, and climate regions such as tropical wet, desert, and high latitudes. Learn about factors affecting climate and vegetation regions around the globe.

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Understanding Weather and Climate Patterns Worldwide

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  1. Weather and Climate • Weather —atmospheric conditions at a particular location and time •Climate—weather conditions at one location over long a period Rain Shadow • Rain shadow—land on opposite side of air movement when it hits hills and mountains (A – wet, B – Desert) NEXT

  2. Hurricanes • Huge storms called hurricanes, or typhoons: - form over warm, tropical ocean waters - hit land with heavy rain, high winds, storm surge 1 Tornadoes • Tornadoa powerful, funnel-shaped column of spiraling air: - born from strong thunderstorms NEXT

  3. Weather Extremes Blizzards • Blizzard —heavy snowstorm with strong winds, reduced visibility Droughts • Drought:long period of time with either no or minimal rainfall Floods • Water spreads out over normally dry land NEXT

  4. Factors Affecting Climate Wind and Ocean Current Zones of Latitude Elevation Global Warming • Gradual warming of the earth’s atmosphere Continued . . . NEXT

  5. Climate Regions Tropical Tropical Wet (Hawaii) • Hot; daily rainfall adds up to more than 80” annually Tropical Wet and Dry (Bahamas) • Warm, wet summer season; cooler, dry winter season Semiarid (Texas) • Hot summers; mild to cold winters; little precipitation Desert (Sahara Desert) • Less than 10” rain per year Middle Latitudes Mediterranean (Italy, Greece, Los Angeles) • Summers dry and hot; winters cool and rainy Marine West Coast (Seattle, Eastern China) • Moderate temperatures; frequently cloudy, foggy, Humid Subtropical (Georgia) • Long periods of summer heat and humidity; winters mild to cool NEXT

  6. Humid Continental (New York, Chicago) • Great variety of temperature, precipitation; four distinct seasons High Latitudes (Cold) Subarctic (Southern Canada, Alaska) • Summers are short and cool; winters are long and very cold Tundra (Nothern Canada, Alaska) • Tundra—flat, treeless ring of lands around the Arctic Ocean • Very little precipitation; summer temperatures around 40°F. • Permafrostis the constantly frozen subsoil found in this region Ice Cap (Antarctica) • Snow, ice, permanently freezing temperatures Highlands (Appalachian, Rocky Mountains) • Climate varies with latitude, elevation, topography, location NEXT

  7. Vegetation Regions Forestlands • Deciduous—broadleaf trees: maple, oak, birch • Rain forest—tropical forest with broadleaf trees • Coniferous—needle leaf trees; cone bearing: pine, fir 4 NEXT

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