Earth’s Weather and Climate

National Weather Service/Noaa

What is the difference between light-colored clouds and dark-colored clouds? How do we know when the weather is going to become severe? Today Jeanine visits the National Weather Service office to learn more about weather conditions and what causes them.

ESS2.C: The Roles of Water in Earth’s Surface Processes
The complex patterns of the changes and the movement of water in the atmosphere, determined by winds, landforms, and ocean temperatures and currents, are major determinants of local weather patterns.

ESS2.D: Weather and Climate
Because these patterns are so complex, weather can only be predicted
probabilistically.

ESS2.D: Weather and Climate
The tilt of the earth’s rotational axis causes a pattern of uneven heating and cooling that changes seasonally and establishes global patterns of climate and weather.

Weather and climate are influenced by interactions involving sunlight, the ocean, the atmosphere, ice, landforms, and living things. These interactions vary with latitude, altitude, and local and regional geography, all of which can affect oceanic and atmospheric flow patterns.