| Climate and weather play a very important role in our lives. Climate determines the environmental conditions, animal world, flora and plenty of other things. For example, equatorial zone is famous for high humidity and luxuriant vegetation. It's understandable that conditions of living there will be different from arctic area. Unlike climate weather is conditions of the atmosphere during a short period. Conditions of weather significantly differ according to the season. But even within one season weather can be different. Weather changes have an effect not just on the choice of clothes, but our everyday activity as well. For example, if you are going to spend a day out of doors, unexpected rain may ruin your plans. That is where forecasts of weather come to help.
Weather forecasting is scientifically-based assumption concerning the conditions of weather in the nearest future. It concerns a certain place and a certain period of time. For centuries people used to try to predict the development of weather, but official forecasts were created only in the nineteenth century. Weather forecasts are a result of gathering quantitative data about the current atmospheric state. Using scientific conception of atmospheric processes it is possible to project how the weather will change.
There are various sorts of weather forecasts subject to their term. Short-term forecasts are made for 36 hours. Long-term forecasts may represent a period of 3 or more months. The exactness of weather forecasts is in inverse proportion to their term. In such a way, short-term forecasts are the most accurate.
It will be cognitive to get to know that the first forecast of weather was showed on TV in England on the 11th of November, 1936. Today forecasts of weather are available not just on radio and television, but in the World Wide Web as well. You get a possibility to learn forecast of weather for any period in any point worldwide. Weather forecasts are of great help in planning – everything from clothing to wear tomorrow to when it's the best time to go on vacation. |
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