Dictionary definitions from Wiktionary Textbooks from Wikibooks Quotations from Wikiquote Source texts from Wikisource Images and media from Commons News stories from Wikinews Weather is an all-encompassing term used to describe all of the many and varied phenomena that can occur in the atmosphere of a planet. The term is normally taken to mean the activity of these phenomena over short periods of time, usually no more than a few days in length. Avera ...

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On Earth, regularly occuring weather phenomena include such things as wind, cloud, rain, snow, fog and dust storms. Less common events include natural disasters such as tornadoes, hurricanes and ice storms. Almost all recognised weather phenomena on Earth occur in the troposphere (the lower part of the atmosphere). Weather does occur in the stratosphere and does affect weather lower down in the troposphere, but ...

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In meteorology, a weather front is a boundary between two air masses with differing characteristics (e.g., air temperature or humidity). When a weather front passes over an area, it is marked by changes in temperature, wind speed and direction, atmospheric pressure, and often a change in the precipitation pattern. Weather fronts are often closely associated with atmospheric pressure systems. They are generally guided by the jet stream and travel from west to east. This movement is due to the Coriolis effect, caused by th ...

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A weather vane, also called a wind vane, is a movable device attached to an elevated object such as a roof for showing the direction of the wind. Very often these are in the shape of cockerels and are called weather cocks. Arrows are also popular, but a multitude of designs have been used. The weather vane must be balanced so that half its weight is on either side of its axis, but also designed so that the areas exposed to the wind are unequal. This unequal area causes the vane to rotate to minimize the for ...

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Mumbai has two weather monitoring stations. One at Santacruz Airport and the other at Colaba - Navy Nagar. Since Mumbai is a coastal city, the weather is mostly humid year round. Also as it is in the tropics, it never gets very cold and the yearly extremes lie within a 30°C range. Mumbai can be divided into 4 seasons. Winter: (December-Feb); Summer: (March-May); Monsoon (June-Sep) and withdrawal season (Oct-Dec) Here are the monthly breakup of the weather in Mumbai. Weather of Mumbai - January. This ...

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Weather lore is the body of informal folklore related to the prediction of the weather. It has been a human desire for millennia to make accurate weather predictions. Oral and written history is full of rhymes, anecdotes, and adages meant to guide the uncertain in determining whether the morrow will bring weather fair or foul. For the farmer wanting to plant his crop, for the merchant about to send his ships on trade, foreknowledge of tomorrow's circumstances might mean the difference between success and failure. Prior to the i ...

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Weather disasters are natural disasters caused by rain, drought, snow, extreme heat or cold, ice, or wind. See also: weather, meteorology, disaster, list of disasters Other related archivesdisaster, list of disasters, meteorology, natural disasters, weather

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A weather station is a facility with instruments and equipment to make weather observations by monitoring atmospheric conditions to study the weather. Typical weather stations have the following instruments: thermometer for measuring temperature barometer for measuring air pressure hygrometer for measuring humidity anemometer for measuring wind speed and wind direction< ...

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Weather forecasting is the application of current technology and science to predict the state of the atmosphere for a future time and a given location. The history of weather forecasting goes back millennia, however the techniques used have changed significantly since then. Today, weather forecasts are made by collecting as much data as possible about the current state of the atmosphere (particularly the temperature, humidity and wind) and using understanding of atmospheric processes (through meteorology) to determine how the atmosphe ...

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God is the term used to denote the Supreme Being ascribed by many religions to be the creator, ruler and/or the sum total of, existence. Conceptions of God vary widely, despite the common use of the same term for them all. God - Definition. God - Concept of God. In many Western religions, God is usually said to have a specific and clearly defined relationship to, and interest in, the happenings of this world and the lives of those in it. Metaphors for God's relationship t ...

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A weather balloon is a balloon which carries instruments aloft to send back information on atmospheric pressure, temperature, and humidity by means of a small, expendable measuring device called a radiosonde. To obtain wind data, they can be tracked by radar, radio direction finding, or navigation systems (such as the satellite based Global Positioning System). The balloon itself produces the lift, and is usually made of a highly flexible latex material (though Chloroprene may also be used). The unit that performs the actual me ...

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A weather satellite is a type of artificial satellite that is primarily used to monitor the weather and climate of the Earth. These meteorological satellites, however, see more than clouds and cloud systems. City lights, fires, pollution, auroras, sand and dust storms, snow cover, ice mapping, ocean currents, energy waste, etc., are other environmental information collected from weather satellites. Weather satellite images helped in monitoring the volcanic ash cloud from Mount St. Helens and activity from other volcanoes such as Mount Etna. Smoke from fires in the western United St ...

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Weather control is the purported ability to control the weather by any means, including the use of prayer, magic, or advanced technology. Weather control - History of weather control. Some American Indians had rituals which they believed could induce rain. The Finnish people, on the other hand, were believed by others to be able to control all weather. Thus Vikings refused to take Finns on their raids by sea. Remnants of this belief lasted well into the modern age, with many ship crews being reluctan ...

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Whiteout is a weather condition in which visibility and contrast are reduced by snow and diffuse lighting from overcast clouds. There are two different forms of a whiteout: In blizzard conditions, the windblown snow in the air may simply make it too difficult to see very far. In clear air conditions, when there is no snow falling, diffuse lighting from overcast cloud may cause all surface definition to disappear. It becomes impossible to tell how far away the snowy surface is. In polar regions (and in eg t ...

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In Akkadian mythology, Zu (called Anzu in Persia and Sumer) was a lesser god, the son of the bird goddess Siris. Both Zu and Siris are seen as massive birds who can breathe fire and water, although Zu is alternately seen as a lion-headed eagle (compare with the griffin). Zu was a servant of the chief sky god, Enlil. He stole the Tablets of Fate from his master, hoping to determine the fate of all things. In one version of the story, the gods sent Lugalbanda to retrieve the tablets, and he, in turn, killed Zu. In another, ...

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Parameshwara, also transliterated from Sanskrit in various other ways, literally means the Supreme God. The word "param" meaning the highest is added to Ishwara to intensify the title of God. See Ishvara. Other related archivesGod, Ishvara, Ishwara, Sanskrit

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"Other deities worshipped at Ugarit were El Shaddai, El Elyon, and El Berith. All of these names are applied to Yahweh by the writers of the Old Testament. What this means is that the Hebrew theologians adopted the titles of the Canaanite gods and attributed them to Yahweh in an effort to eliminate them. If Yahweh is all of these there is no need for the Canaanite gods to exist! This process is known as assimilation." [1] In his euhemeristic account of the Phoenician deities, Sanchuniathon says: In their time is bo ...

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The title is first found twice in the Gospel of John: The next day he [John the Baptist] saw Jesus coming toward him and said, "Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world." (John 1:29) The next day John was there again with two of his disciples, and as he watched Jesus walk by, he said, "Behold, the Lamb of God." (John 1:35f) The image of Jesus as lamb is also very prominent in the Book of Revelation, where Jesus is referred to as Lamb twenty-eight times. However, Book of Revel ...

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Weather phenomena and systems on other planets are thought to be similar to those on Earth, but often occur on a much bigger scale or involve different substances to those familiar to Earth dwellers. The Cassini-Huygens mission to Titan, for example, discovered clouds formed from methane or ethane which deposit rain composed of liquid methane and other organic compounds. Extra-terrestrial weather systems can be extremely stable; one of the most famous landmarks in the solar system, Jupiter's Great Red Spot is an anticyclonic st ...

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