Explain climate and weather patterns associated with certain geographic locations and features?
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The US gets something like 90+% of all the world's hurricanes because the warm air of the Gulf Coast can interact directly with the cold air coming down from the arctic, with no mountains in between. If you look at a map, that is the only place that is true on earth. This causes tornadoes. \n\nIt rains and snows near mountains and islands in the ocean. This is called an orographic effect. Areas behind the mountains are often very dry. This creates deserts in the rain shadows of these mountains. \n\nAntarctica is a high plateau and a large continent. The distance from the ocean and the altitude make it the coldest place on earth. \n\nOften cold air comes over the Great lakes, and creates fingers of snow as the air moves east. This is called Lake Effect snow. \n\nChinooks and Santa Anas are examples of foehn winds, caused by air travelling down the lee side of a mountain and being compressed under a temperature inversion and warming up. These warm dry winds are also called katabatic winds.\n\nThe warm Gulf stream and warm Kurishiro currents on the western side of the Atlantic and Pacific respectively keep the land nearby warmer than it would be otherwise. These currents are western boundary currents of ocean gyres produced by the coriolis force in the Atlantic and Pacific ocean basins. \n\nTropical cyclones are also produced by coriolis force, and pick up energy from warm ocean waters that result from the world ocean current system. Of course, the topography of the oceans produces this world ocean current system, so topography is responsible for the tropical cyclones, including the hurricanes we are confronted with in the US.
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Mountains can affect the weather and climate of an area.  The mountians create updrafts, rainshadows, and other phenomena.\nMountains also affect the flow of people, ideas, and things impacting travel and transportation
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If you mean how can we forecast the weather, it's largely a matter of  measuring teh movement or change of wind currents, humidity, and a number of other factors.  Now, most of that is fed into a computer, and it gives aprediciton of what the weather will be over a short period of time.  Or, you could use an ancient Indian weather rock:  If it's hot, the sun is out; if it's wet, it's raining; if it's swinging, the wind is blowing...
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For weather you need hot and cold, wind and rain, snow and ice, and sunshine. The earth has plenty of those, and our weather is a world-wide heat-engine driven by the sun, the rotation of the earth, and the tilt of the earth's rotation axis with respect to its orbital plane as it orbits the sun. Thus we get night and day (hot and cold), seasons (rain, snow and ice), and cloudy or sunny days (and cloudy nights too, but it's hard to see clouds at night; and the Moon provides us with somewhat "sunny" nights a few nights every month).\n\nThe moon has plenty of hot and cold and sunshine, so some "weathering" of its surface does occur over billions of years of time, due to heat expansion and cold contraction of "stuff" on its surface. But without wind (no atmosphere) and rain, snow, and ice (no water) there is nothing to cause real weather like we have here on earth.
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Geographic location and altitude of the air mass, also the proximity of large bodies of water. Water tends to have a moderating effect on temperature. Moisture content changes at altitude and lower temperatures as moisture is lost in the form of precipitation.\n\nFor example you have on a mountain peak several zones one of which is the zone of precipitation, the altitude at which precipitation is likely to occur. The second is the zone of accumulation which is the altitude at which accumulation of precipitated materials is likely to occur (snow line).
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http://www.blueplanetbiomes.org/climate.htm
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LOCATION\n"Where are we?"   is the question that the theme Location answers. Location may be absolute or it may be relative.  These locations, whether relative or absolute, may be of people or places. \n * An absolute location is a latitude and longitude (a global location) or a street address (local location). \n *  Relative locations are described by landmarks, time, direction or distance from one place to another and may associate a particular place with another. \n\n\nPLACE\nWhat kind of place is it?  What do you think of when you imagine China?  Japan?  Russia?  Saudi Arabia? \nPlaces have both human and physical characteristics, as well as images. \nPhysical characteristics include mountains, rivers, soil, beaches, wildlife, soil.   Places have human characteristics also.  These characteristics are derived from the ideas and actions of people that result in changes to the environment, such as buildings, roads, clothing, and food habits. \n\nHUMAN/ENVIRONMENTAL INTERACTION\nHow do humans and the environment affect each other?  We change the environment and then sometime Mother Nature changes it back.  For example, floods in the mid-West, Hurricane Emily (Hatteras), and earthquakes and mudslides in California. \nThere are three key concepts to human/environmental interaction: \n Humans adapt on the environment. \n Humans modify the environment. \n Humans depend to the environment.\nPeople depend on the Tennessee River for our water and transportation.   People modify our environment by heating and coolings buildings for comfort.   People adapt to the environment by wearing clothing that is suitable for summer and winter; rain and shine. \nAll places on Earth have advantages and disadvantages for human settlement.  One person's advantage may be another person's disadvantage.  Some like the excitement of large cities whereas others prefer remoteness.   Environment is not just trees, spotted owls, and rain forests.  Environment is a feeling.  What is the environment of a big city?  Boston?  Los Angeles?  Dallas? \nGiven the choice, where would you live?  Why?  What is the environment?  How do people interact with the environment?  How do the physical features affect us? \nHow have we adapted to or changed our landscape?  For example, in the Sudan even though everything is seemingly barren, the land sustains farmers and nomadic herders.  People and animals have adapted to a hot, dry climate.\n\n\nMOVEMENT\nThe movement of people, the import and export of goods, and mass communication have all played major roles in shaping our world.  People everywhere interact.  They travel from place to place and they communicate.  We live in a global village and global economy. \nPeople interact with each other through movement.  Humans occupy places unevenly on Earth because of the environment but also because we are social beings.  We interact with each other through travel, trade, information flows (E-Mail) and political events. \nNot only do humans move but also ideas move; fashions move; fads move.  What is an example of an idea that moves?  Fashion?  Fad?  How do we depend on people in other places?   How would our lives change if our movement options changed?  What would happen if we traveled by camel or horse?  How do we move from place to place?  How do we actually get food? \n  \n\nREGION\nA region is the basic unit of study in geography.  A region is an area that displays a coherent unity in terms of the government, language, or possibly the landform or situation.  Regions are human constructs that can be mapped and analyzed. \nThere are three basic types of regions. \n *  Formal regions are those defined by governmental or administrative boundaries (i. e., United States, Birmingham, Brazil).  These regional boundaries are not open to dispute, therefore physical regions fall under this category (i. e., The Rockies, the Great Lakes States). \n  *  Functional regions are those defined by a function (i. e., TVA, Uni
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Take a look at this site.  You will need to specify dates and places\n\nhttp://www.weather.gov/climate/
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Wind Patterns probably refer to the Global Wind Patterns or Prevaling Winds that are associated with different latitudes.\n\nThis is probably best illustrated by the figure from the Texas A&M Desesrts course web site referenced below.\n\nTo summarize, \nthe polar latitudes between 60 and 90 degrees (both north and south) have prevaling "Polar Easterly" winds.\nLatitudes between 30 and 60 degrees (again both north and south) have prevaling "Westerly" winds.\nThe region between 30 degrees north to 30 degrees south have prevaling easterly "Trade Winds."
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climate or atmosphere
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Could be related to it in some indirect way. Many people seem to assume that if the globe warms that will mean hot & dry weather - desertlike conditions. Yet increasing CO2 may make vegetation more abundant - warmer weather causing more evaporation and probably more rain. So the NE may more begin to resemble a rain forest during summer.\n\nThe reason it has been raining alot recently though is persistent SE-S flow around an Atlantic surface High and a mid-tropospheric trof to the E. Warm & moist air flows inland and is lifted by the terrain, and conditions are favorable to support ascending air ahead of the upper trof.\n\nA High over the Atlantic is a persistent feature during summer. If it is far enough S, a large surface ridge builds over the SE U.S. from it and hot & dry SW-W winds occur over the NE. If it is further N though, that becomes a S-SE wind - an onshore flow which contributes to persistent and locally heavy rains.
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Global warming\n\nhttp://www.worldviewofglobalwarming.org/\n\nhttp://climatecrisis.org/\n\nhttp://www.globalwarming.org/\n\nhttp://www.davidsuzuki.org/\n\nhttp://www.ucsusa.org/global_warming/\n\nhttp://www.climatehotmap.org/\n\nWEBSITES ON WEATHER AND CLIMATE FOR TEACHERS AND STUDENTS\n\nhttp://www.cumbavac.org/weather.htm\n\nGood luck.\n\nKevin, Liverpool, England.
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Weather is essentially what we experience as a result of the interaction of RADIANT HEAT from the Sun, WATER (liquid, solid, and gas), dynamically changing and moving AIR PRESSURE zones, and the Earth's TOPOGRAPHY.
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Climate is more of a long-term, permanent state. For example, a rain forest climate would be wet and warm year-round. Weather is constantly changing; weather includes temporary states like rain or cloudiness. Weather is affected by winds, temperature and humidity.
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On a philosophical level.... I would say it's a natural balance derived from natural occurrences. There are many different forms of weather, but the natural capability of movement shifts in many rotations causing a range of wind that forces climate change and therefore causing dramatic changes and patterns. on more of a documented scientific note I would say:The blanket of air that covers the earth is called\n\n  the atmosphere. The bottom layer of the atmosphere is \n\n  called the troposphere. The troposphere is where all of \n\n  earth’s weather happens. Basically, our weather is \n\n  caused by two things: the sun and moisture in the air.\n\n  These two things together can form clouds, can make rain\n\n  and form thunderstorms, and cause winds to blow. Without\n\n  the sun and moisture in the air, our earth would have no \n\n  weather at all. In fact, there would be no people on our plantet\n\n  \n             Another thing that helps to cause the earths \n\n   Weather is air masses. When two air masses come \n\n   Together, the line between them is called a front. Along a\n\n   Front there is usually clouds, rain, and maybe thunderstorms.\n\n   The movement of air masses helps to cause weather \n\n   almost  as much as the sun and moisture in the air. Without\n\n   air masses, all the earth’s weather would stay in one place
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a climate similar to those found on and around the equator.
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(m)\n\nThe difference between weather and climate is a measure of time. Weather is what conditions of the atmosphere are over a short period of time, and climate is how the atmosphere "behaves" over relatively long periods of time. \n\nWhen we talk about climate change, we talk about changes in long-term averages of daily weather. Today, children always hear stories from their parents and grandparents about how snow was always piled up to their waists as they trudged off to school. Children today in most areas of the country haven't experienced those kinds of dreadful snow-packed winters, except for the Northeastern U.S. in January 2005. The change in recent winter snows indicate that the climate has changed since their parents were young. \n\nIf summers seem hotter lately, then the recent climate may have changed. In various parts of the world, some people have even noticed that springtime comes earlier now than it did 30 years ago. An earlier springtime is indicative of a possible change in the climate. \n\naddition to long-term climate change, there are shorter term climate variations. This so-called climate variability can be represented by periodic or intermittent changes related to El Niño, La Niña, volcanic eruptions, or other changes in the Earth system