Why when we travel from sea level up  to mountains for example the weather gets cooler?
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the air gets thinner as you rise in elevation.  the thin mountain air doesn't trap the heat as well as the thick air near sea level does.
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BECAUSE THOSE AREAS MIGHT HAVE HIGH HILLS WHERE THE CLOUDS HIT HARD AND RAIN .MIGHT BE THE LOW AREAS AND FINALLY DUE TO CLOSE TO SEAS
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Because the air spreads out, and as it spreads out it retains less heat.\n\nAnd while cold air does sink and hot air rises, as cold air does get lower in altitude it warms up, and hot air cools as it rises. \n\nI live in the foothills west of Denver so I see the rising/falling air thing firsthand. In the winter we get this air that 50 miles to the west was part of a blizzard. As it descends the mountains, it dries out and heats up sometimes bringing temperatures in the middle of the winter into the 60's or 70's.
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First, a high elevation on Earth is not that much closer to the sun than sea level is when you consider the great distance from Earth to the sun.\n\nThe temperature changes have to do with air pressure... there is less of an atmosphere to hold in the heat at a high elevation than there is at sea level.  You might notice that cities at high elevation also have widely varying temperatures between day and night.  Here it will warm up in the day easily without much atmosphere to reflect energy from the sun, but at night it's like just having a sheet over you--the heat escapes easily.  At sea level you will warm up more slowly but hold that heat in much longer because you have a giant blanket of atmosphere over you, and higher air pressure to maintain the heat.  \n\nAlso at sea level, if you are by the sea, you have the added effect of the ocean or sea keeping the air temperate (around the same temperature all the time) since water maintains it temperature better than the air.
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in the northern hemisphere, above the equator, during winter the tilt of the earth spreads out the suns rays over a wider area, so there is less energy per square mile than in summer, that's why it's colder in winter. \n\nIt's colder up in the mountains because the air is thinner, and can hold less energy than the thicker air at lower elevations.\n\nThe earth's distance from the sun varies a bit through the year but it's not much of a factor in the temperatures.  Latitude (distance from the equator) and the seasons are the predominant reasons it's warm or cold.
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The temperature reduced in proportion with the height of the hill. More the height less is the temperature. The clouds around the hills make it less hot.The flow of cold water, waterfalls, cool breeze add to the chillness.  The shade of the trees reduces the heat. The chillness cools the clouds to pour local rain.  \nThe passing clouds are intercepted by clouds and made to shower more rain.\n  The slope of the hills absorb lesser heat received over a larger area  of the slop through the vertical rays during the high noon time.  The slanting rays with less heat does not reach most of the landscap because of the hilly shape.
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Heat likes to rise. If there are clounds, they keep the heat in. On clear nights, the heat can rise up and away and it gets colder.
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While it may be closer to the sun, the atmosphere is thinner (less air pressure) and thus colder.  Warmer temperatures also depend a lot on the surrounding area; cities stay warmer at night than open areas since all the buildings & roads holding the heat from the day and radiating that heat back.   In a mountain area there is less of that kind of heat.
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The pressure is high at the surface where air is slowly descending — much too slowly to feel. And, this is going on over a large area, maybe a few hundred square miles. As air descends, it warms, which inhibits the formation of clouds. This is why high pressure is generally — but not quite always — associated with good weather
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While it is true that hot air rises, it is also true that it will cool as it rises. This is called adiabatic cooling.\n\nAir pressure deminishes as you go to higher altitudes b/c there is less gravity. Less air pressure means air particles are more spread out. Hence the adiabatic cooling effect.\n\nThis is true in the troposphere, the atmospheric layer in which we live & where weather occurs.\n\nAs you go higher the reverse happens. In the stratosphere it gets warmer due to the ozone layer. In the mesosphere it gets colder again b/c you move away from the ozone layer. In the thermosphere it gets warmer again b/c of the bombardment of air particles by intense short wave solar radiation.
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At dusk, the land has begun to cool but the ocean, being water, retains heat longer than the land does.  The temperature differential causes a wind to blow out toward the ocean due to the rising warm air over the ocean.  This wind blows the clouds out into their thin and whispy shape.
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warm air does rise but it cools off as it does. the rule is that the atmosphere cools off 3 degrees for every 1000 ft rise in elevation. 10000 ft up its 30 degrees colder than at the surface.
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Air Pressure.  The humidity and such in the air is higher and therefore holds more warmth.\n\nAt higher altitudes, where the air is less dense, there is greater distance between particulates and heat is lost faster.
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Because climate isn't just determined by latitude, but by distance from the sea, if there are mountains near by, weather patterns and a lot of other things.
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It's harder for your body to cool off when it's hot because the difference in temperature is not as large as when it is cool.  Put another way, the cool air on a cool day, regardless of the relative humidity, helps to cool you off.
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Water retains temperature more than air, so the oceans stay warm in winter and cool in summer. They cool air currents that blow around the continents.
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Exactly the same thing as on Earth:  Differential heating caused by the Sun's rays falling on different latitudes of the planet.  This causes the warmer parts of the atmosphere to rise.  Denser atmosphere "blows" in to fill the lower pressure areas (think wind).  If the atmosphere contains materials that can condense(water, vapor, methane, ammonia, etc.) and the temperatures are in the correct range for the atmospheric contents then "weather" occurs.