87 Beautiful & Stunning Weather Photography You Never See Before

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Weather is the state of the atmosphere, to the degree that it is hot or cold, wet or dry, calm or stormy, clear or cloudy. Most weather phenomena occur in the troposphere, just below the stratosphere. Weather refers, generally, to day-to-day temperature and precipitation activity, whereas climate is the term for the average atmospheric conditions over longer periods of time. When used without qualification, “weather” is understood to be the weather of Earth. Weather is driven by density (temperature and moisture) differences between one place and another. These differences can occur due to the sun angle at any particular spot, which varies by latitude from the tropics. The strong temperature contrast between polar and tropical air gives rise to the jet stream. Weather systems in the mid-latitudes, such as extratropical cyclones, are caused by instabilities of the jet stream flow. Because the Earth’s axis is tilted relative to its orbital plane, sunlight is incident at different angles at different times of the year. On Earth’s surface, temperatures usually range ±40 °C (100 °F to −40 °F) annually. Over thousands of years, changes in Earth’s orbit affect the amount and distribution of solar energy received by the Earth and influence long-term climate and global climate change. Stormy Weather Oklahoma Tornado Red Lightning Storm Triple Purple Lightning Heavy Clouds Hanging ove a Road and Field Pickup Truck Driving from Storm Rainbow in a Cloudy Sky over a Meadow Tornado Touching Down by Country Road Texas Mother Ship Cloud Thunderhead, Sidney, Nebraska the Sky above my home . . .Sydney, Australia the Sky above my home . . .Sydney, Australia the Sky above my home . . .Sydney, Australia the Sky above my home . . .Sydney, Australia Twister Fargo North Dakota Venus Nature Nature Wild Blue Yonder Weather

Weather is the state of the atmosphere, to the degree that it is hot or cold, wet or dry, calm or stormy, clear or cloudy. Most weather phenomena occur in the troposphere, just below the stratosphere. Weather refers, generally, to day-to-day temperature and precipitation activity, whereas climate is the term for the average atmospheric conditions over longer periods of time. When used without qualification, “weather” is understood to be the weather of Earth.

Weather is driven by density (temperature and moisture) differences between one place and another. These differences can occur due to the sun angle at any particular spot, which varies by latitude from the tropics. The strong temperature contrast between polar and tropical air gives rise to the jet stream. Weather systems in the mid-latitudes, such as extratropical cyclones, are caused by instabilities of the jet stream flow. Because the Earth’s axis is tilted relative to its orbital plane, sunlight is incident at different angles at different times of the year. On Earth’s surface, temperatures usually range ±40 °C (100 °F to −40 °F) annually. Over thousands of years, changes in Earth’s orbit affect the amount and distribution of solar energy received by the Earth and influence long-term climate and global climate change.

Stormy Weather

Oklahoma Tornado

Red Lightning Storm

Triple Purple Lightning

Heavy Clouds Hanging ove a Road and Field

Pickup Truck Driving from Storm

Rainbow in a Cloudy Sky over a Meadow

Tornado Touching Down by Country Road

Texas Mother Ship Cloud

Thunderhead, Sidney, Nebraska

the Sky above my home . . .Sydney, Australia

the Sky above my home . . .Sydney, Australia

the Sky above my home . . .Sydney, Australia

the Sky above my home . . .Sydney, Australia

Twister Fargo North Dakota

Venus

Nature

Nature

Wild Blue Yonder

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