What determines the weather and climate of an area?

Question

What determines the weather and climate of an area?

Answer 1

Thousands or more big and little factors, like the latitude, the presence of lakes and oceans, mountains, vegetation and many other things, some of which are not even in the small area in question. For example, then #1 factor is the Sun. No Sun, no heat and no weather. In fact, without heat from the Sun, the air would cool down until it liquefied into pools of liquid nitrogen and liquid oxygen on the surface of the Earth which would then have no gaseous atmosphere, a vacuum like the Moon, and then the liquid would freeze solid, into nitrogen and oxygen ice.

Answer 2

Many things.  One is where you're located in regards to jet streams.  The Gulf Stream, for instance, brings warm water and air from the Equator, up into the Gulf of Mexico, and along up the East Coast.

It also depends on the lay of the land around you.  Mountains can trap moisture and bring humidity and precipitation.  Seattle is surrounded by mountains on three sides, and that's one of the reasons it rains there so much.  Mountains can also block moisture out.   And so there's some mountains where it will always rain on one side, but rarely ever on the other side.  Mountains can also stop wind from moving from one area of a region to another.  Air moves very easily in the plains, and hardly through mountains.  So a jet stream can move weather easily from one part of the country to another, if there's no obstacles like mountains.

Being near a large body of water will effect your climate, too.  Temperatures are very consistent in nature, because it takes water a very long time to heat up, or cool down.  The more water, the more of an effect it has.  So oceans have the biggest effect, followed by large lakes, then large rivers.

How high or below sea-level you are matters, too.  Very high land is cooler because the atmosphere has a lower pressure, and therefore the temperature is cooler.  Low land has a high pressure, and therefore the temperatures get high.

The most significant, and most obvious factor involves what part of the world you live in, and how much Sun that area gets.  With the way The Earth spins, the horizontal circumference aroundThe Earth receives the most Sun.  It's called The Equator.  The closer you are to the Equator, the more Sun and higher temperatures an area will receive.  

Picture of the Equator: http://home1.gte.net/deleyd/religion/sol...

Answer 3

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Answer 4

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