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Weather

state of the atmosphere

Weatheris the state of theatmosphere,to the degree that it ishotorcold,wetordry,calmorstormy,clearorcloudy.Weather, seen from ananthropologicalperspective,is something allhumansin theworldconstantly experience through theirsenses,at least while being outside. Weather generally refers to day-to-daytemperatureandprecipitationactivity, whereasclimateis the term for the average atmospheric conditions over longer periods of time. When used without qualification, "weather", is generally understood to mean the weather ofEarth

I feel so much depends on the weather, so is it raining in your bedroom? ~Scott Weiland


CONTENT:A - F,G - L,M - R,S - Z,See also,External links

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We often hear of bad weather, but inrealityno weather isbad.It is alldelightful,though in different ways. Some weather may be bad forfarmers.-John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury
Mynovelsoffer an extremehypothesiswhich future events may disprove — or confirm. They're in the nature of long-range weatherforecasts.-J. G. Ballard.
WEATHER, n. Theclimateof an hour....A permanent topic ofconversationamong persons whom it does not interest, but who have inherited the tendency to chatter about it from nakedarborealancestorswhom it keenly concerned. The setting up of official weather bureaus and their maintenance in mendacity prove that evengovernmentsare accessible tosuasionby the rude forefathers of thejungle.-Ambrose Bierce.
Acloudwas on themindof men, and wailing went the weather,
Yea, a sick cloud upon thesoulwhen we were boys together.-G. K. Chesterton.
Thoseweathermen,too, who tell you thatrainis bad weather. There's no such thing as bad weather, just thewrongclothing,so get yourself asexyraincoat.-Billy Connolly.
One day in thebluestofsummerweather,
Sketchingunder a whisperingoak,
I heard fivebobolinkslaughingtogether
Over someornithologicaljoke.- Christopher Pearce Cranch.
Externalheatandcoldhad littleinfluenceonScrooge.No warmth couldwarm,no wintry weatherchillhim... -Charles Dickens.
Aprilis thecruelestmonth,breeding
lilacsout of the deadland,mi xing
memoryanddesire,stirring
dull roots withspringrain.-T.S. Eliot.
  • Don't knock the weather. If it didn't change once in a while, nine out of ten people couldn't start aconversation.
  • What it says I don’t know, but it sings a loudsong.
    Butgreenleaves, andblossoms,and sunnywarmweather,
    And singing, and loving — all come back together.
    But thelarkis so brimful of gladness andlove,
    The green fields below him, the blue [sky above.
    That he sings, and he sings; and forever sings he -
    I love my love, and my love loves me!
    • Samuel Taylor Coleridge,"Answer to a Child's Question", line 4, inThe Poetical Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge(London: William Pickering, 1834), Vol. I, p. 176.
  • In discussing the state of the atmosphere following a nuclear exchange, we point especially to the effects of the many fires that would be ignited by the thousands of nuclear explosions in cities, forests, agricultural fields, and oil and gas fields. As a result of these fires, the loading of the atmosphere with strongly light absorbing particles in the submicron size range (1 micron = 10-6 m) would increase so much that at noon solar radiation at the ground would be reduced by at least a factor of two and possibly a factor of greater than one hundred.
    • Paul Crutzenand John W. Birks, 'The Atmosphere after a Nuclear War: Twilight at Noon', Ambio, 1982, 11, 115.
  • Externalheatandcoldhad littleinfluenceonScrooge.No warmth couldwarm,no wintry weatherchillhim. Nowindthat blew was bitterer than he, no fallingsnowwas more intent upon its purpose, no peltingrainless open toentreaty.Foulweather did not know where to have him. The heaviest rain, snow, andhail,andsleet,could boast of the advantage over him in only one respect. They often “come down” handsomely, and Scrooge never did.
thumbJohn von Neumannenvisioned that weather andclimatesystems could be controlled, or atleast directed, by the release of perfectly practical amounts ofenergy,or by altering theabsorptionandreflectionproperties of thegroundor theseaor theatmosphere.Hisphilosophywas that all stable processes we shallpredict.All unstable processes we shallcontrol.

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  • Groveshated the weather, and the weathermen; they represented chaos and the messengers of chaos. Weather violated boundaries, ignored walls and gates, failed to adhere to deadlines, disobeyed orders. Weather caused delays. The weather forecasters had opposed the [atomic bomb] test date for months—it was set within a window of unfavorable conditions: thunderstorms, rain, high winds, inversion layers. Groves had overridden them.… Groves saw it as a matter of insubordination when the weather forecasters refused to forecast good weather for the test.
    • Peter Bacon Hales,In Atomic Spaces: Living on the Manhattan Project(1999), 312. For the attitude of Groves toward the weather see his, 'Some Recollections of July 16, 1945', Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (Jun 1970), 26, No. 6, 27.
  • Theglobeis covered with distinct weather systems that overlap, interact and thus cover the entire globe. TheGulf Streamis one example of a weather system that affects a regional climate.
  • Yet with today's technologicalknowledgeand computational tools, we can only define weather in terms ofprobabilityorchaos theories.Our scientific advancements have been exceptional during the last 400 years, but we still have only begun to understand.
WEATHERS
This is the weather thecuckoolikes,
And so do I;
When showers betumble the chestnut spikes,...Thomas Hardy.
  • WEATHERS
    This is the weather thecuckoolikes,
    And so do I;
    When showers betumble the chestnut spikes,
    And nestlings fly;
    And the little brownnightingalebills his best,
    And they sit outside at 'The Traveller's Rest,'
    And maids come forth sprig-muslin drest,
    Andcitizensdream of the south and west,
    And so do I.
    This is the weather theshepherdshuns,
    And so do I;
    When beeches drip in browns and duns,
    And thresh and ply;
    And hill-hid tides throb, throe on throe,
    Andmeadowrivulets overflow,
    And drops on gate bars hang in a row,
    And rooks in families homeward go,
    And so do I.
  • Thenotionoftimeis to be considered in thenatureofwar,as it is in the nature of weather. For as the nature offoulweather lieth not in a shower or two ofrain,but in an inclination thereto of many days together, so the nature of war consisteth not in actualfighting,but in the known thereto during all the time there is an assurance to the contrary.
  • When all is said and done, the weather andloveare the two elements about which one can never be sure.
For the man sound inbodyandsereneinmindthere is no such thing as bad weather; everyskyhas itsbeauty,andstormswhich whip the blood do but make itpulsemore vigorously -Jerome K. Jerome.
I loved weather, all weather, not just the good kind. I loved balmy days, fearsomestorms,blizzards,andspringshowers.And the colors! Everyday brought something to be admired: the soft feathery patterns ofcirrus clouds,the deep, dark grays ofthunderheads,the lacy gold and peach of the earlymorningsunrise.Theskyand itsmoodscalled to me. -L. Jagi Lamplighter.
  • Give 'em quips, give 'em fun
    And they'll happy to say you're A-1
    If you become afarmeryou've the weather to buck
    If you become agambleryou'll be stuck with yourluck
    But Jack you'll never lack if you can quack like aduck
    Be aclown,be a clown, be a clown.
  • Yes, today we have genuineRussianweather. Yesterday we hadSwedishweather. I can't understand why your weather is soterrible.Maybe it is because you are immediate neighbours ofNATO.
    • Nikita KhrushchevAt a Swedish-Soviet summit which began on March 30, 1956, in Moscow. The stenographed discussion was later published by the Swedish Government.as quoted in Raoul Wallenberg (1985) by Eric Sjöquist, p. 119 ISBN 915365087.
  • I told her I'd rather talk about her, instead of listening to her drone on about the weather. Little did I know she was an aspiringmeteorologist.

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...defined byislandsand enclosed by therainforest,out here, everything was open, and the weather was thefabricof theworld.- Erin Mckittrick
When it isevening,ye say it will be fair weather: for theskyisred.-Matthew.
Stickeen always insisted on going with me, howeverwildthe weather, gliding like afoxthrough drippinghuckleberrybushes and thorny tangles of panaz andrubus...-John Muir.
  • There’s no such thing as bad weather. It’s just light and what you are gonna do about it!
Isn't thelightningdarling?
Fear not thethunder,little one.
It's weather, simply weather;
It'sfriendlygiants full of fun. -Ogden Nash.
  • Isn't the [[[lightning]] darling?
    Fearnot thethunder,little one.
    It's weather, simply weather;
    It'sfriendlygiants full of fun
    Clapping their hands together.
    I hope of lightning our supply
    Will never be exhausted;
    You know it'slanternsin theskyangels who are losted.
    We [[love] the kindlywindand hail,
    The jollythunderbolt,
    We watch in glee the fairy trail
    Ofampere,watt,andvolt.
  • How to start on myadventure—how to become aforester—was not so simple. There were no schools of Forestry]] in America.… Whoever turned his mind toward Forestry in those days thought little about the forest itself and more about its influences, and about itsinfluenceonrainfallfirst of all. So I took a course inmeteorology,which has to do with weather andclimate.and another inbotany,which has to do with the vegetable kingdom—treesare unquestionably vegetable. And another ingeology,for forests grow out of theearth.Also I took a course inastronomy,for it is thesunwhich makes trees grow. All of which is as it should be, becausescienceunderlies the forester'sknowledgeof the woods. So far I was headed right. But as for Forestry itself, there wasn't even a suspicion of it at Yale. The time for teaching Forestry as a profession was years away.
Why is it that showers and evenstormsseem to come by chance, so that many people think it quitenaturalto pray forrainor fine weather, though they would consider it ridiculous to ask for aneclipsebyprayer?
Sunshineisdelicious,rainis refreshing,windbraces us up,snowis exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather. -John Ruskin.

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ThemartletBuilds in the weather on the outward wall, Even in the force and road ofcasualty.-William Shakespeare.
...Little wefear
Weather without,
Sheltered about
The Mahogany-Tree.
I believe that inIndia"cold weather" is merely a conventional phrase and has come into use through the necessity of having some way to distinguish between weather which will melt abrassdoor-knob and weather which will only make it mushy. -Mark Twain.
In fierce March weather
Whitewavesbreak tether,
And whirled together
At either hand,
Like weeds uplifted
The tree trunks rifted. -Algernon Charles Swinburne.
USA,India,China,theMiddle EastandAustralia,whereclimatic conditionssuit the natural growth requirement ofcottonincluding periods of hot and dry weather, and where adequatemoistureis available, often obtained throughirrigation.- Usha Barwale Zehr.
  • Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it. People are always ready to complain about aproblembut never willing to solve it;...
    • Generally, but perhaps mistakenly, attributed toMark Twain,as reported inRespectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations(1989), which notes that the quote "has never been verified in his writings". Many quotation dictionaries creditCharles Dudley Warner,a friend of Twain's, with this remark. But what Warner actually wrote, in an editorial in the Hartford (Connecticut) Courant (August 27, 1897), p. 8, was: "Awell known American writersaid once that, while everybody talked about the weather, nobody seemed to do anything about it. "Later, Robert U. Johnson, in his autobiography, Remembered Yesterdays, p. 322 (1923), says," Nor have I ever seen in print Mark's saying about the weather, 'We all grumble about the weather, but—but—but nothing is done about it.' "See also Martin H. ManserThe Facts on File Dictionary of Proverbs,Infobase Publishing, 2007, p. 175.
  • As averbweather means change incolor,condition, etc., because of the effects of thesun,wind,rain,etc., over a long period of time. It also means to deal with or experience (something dangerous or unpleasant) without being harmed or damaged too much.
    • Merriam-webster inWeather,Merriam-webster.
  • As a noun weather is the state of theairand atmosphere at a particular time and place: the temperature and other outside conditions (such asrain,cloudiness,etc.) at a particular time and place, and bad orstormyweather. It is the state of the atmosphere with respect toheatorcold,wetnessordryness,calmorstorm,clearness or cloudiness.
    • Merriam-webster in: "Weather".
  • I feel so much depends on the weather, so is it raining in your bedroom?
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