Weather: types, pros and cons

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Weather in a lay man’s language is simply the local atmospheric condition of a place at a particular time. For example as at the time I write this, the weather here is cloudy and cold because it’s been raining for a while. There are some phenomena that comes into play when weather is being discussed and those phenomena includes:

• Temperature: which is simply a reference to how cold or hot the atmospheric condition of a place is per time.
• ⁠Humidity: This points to the amount of moisture contained in the air per time.
• ⁠Precipitation: This is a references to rainfall, snow fall, hail, fog etc
• ⁠ Cloudiness: Talks about the presence of clouds and the types of clouds
• ⁠Wind: This refers to the speed of air movement and the direction.

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The weather of a place can change from day to day, or even in minutes or hours.
Weather is an integral part of our lives and plays a strategic role in our day to day living as it influences the way we dress, how we engage in outdoor activities and also goes along way to influence the choices we make when it come to agriculture.

Some interesting aspects of weather includes:

The types of weather conditions: We are all used to the different types of weather such as cold weather, hot, sunny, rainy, snowy, cloudy, and etc.

Weather forecasting: The aspect of weather has to do with weather predictions. The weather can be predicted through observations, use of models and different data.

Climate change: Climate change is that aspect of weather that deals with how global warming is impacting our weather patterns both on normal and extreme cases.

Extreme weather cases: This aspect deals with cases where we encounter extreme weather conditions such as tornadoes, hurricanes, hails, snow storms etc and their impacts they have on the environment.

Weather patterns: Weather patterns such as high or low pressure systems, fronts and jet streams as affects the type of weather we experience and they help meteorologists in the weather predictions so that they can be able to issue warnings on time in cases where severe weather conditions are envisaged.

Seasonal changes: Here we see how the weather changes per season and each of these seasons have their own characteristics. In my country, we all presently in the rainy season where we see more of rain falls and this brings about the farming season.

After the rainy season comes the dry season or what we also call the harmattan season characterized by dryness and cold and no rain falls. In the western world they have four seasons namely autumn, spring, winter and summer.

Weather impacts on our daily lives:

Weather impacts different aspects of our lives such as:

• Transportation: Weather conditions such as rainfall, fog, snows etc limits our mobility and impacts safety consciousness. Flights are cancelled in extra weather conditions, there is limited public transportation movement during heavy rainfalls.
• Work and school: Heavy rainfall can bring about delays in school or work resumption’s and early dismissals.⁠
• ⁠Out door activities: Ourdoor activities such as picnics, sports is influenced by the weather conditions. No one goes for picnic or hiking under heavy rainfall.
• ⁠Agriculture: Impacts farming practices and timing and even crop yield and growth.
• ⁠Health: Extreme weather conditions can trigger health conditions such as allergies, cold, asthma etc

The impact of weather on our day today lives cannot be overemphasized. When we understand our weather conditions, it helps us to be able to plan our day and also know how we can respond to the various weather conditions to lead fruitful lives.

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