{"id":81,"date":"2019-08-10T17:30:57","date_gmt":"2019-08-10T17:30:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/oeas220t\/?page_id=81"},"modified":"2019-08-26T14:00:27","modified_gmt":"2019-08-26T14:00:27","slug":"introduction","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/oeas220t\/introduction\/","title":{"rendered":"Weather or Climate"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/oeas220t\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14241\/2019\/08\/weather_fatalities.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-82\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/oeas220t\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14241\/2019\/08\/weather_fatalities.jpg 800w, https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/oeas220t\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14241\/2019\/08\/weather_fatalities-300x216.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/oeas220t\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14241\/2019\/08\/weather_fatalities-768x553.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><figcaption> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.weather.gov\/hazstat\/\">https:\/\/www.weather.gov\/hazstat\/<\/a> <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\" class=\"has-huge-font-size\">Weather or climate?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Climate is what you expect, weather is what you get<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncei.noaa.gov\/news\/weather-vs-climate\">https:\/\/www.ncei.noaa.gov\/news\/weather-vs-climate<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Weather <\/strong>is the mix of events that happen each day in our atmosphere.  Most weather happens in the troposphere closest to the ground. Different factors in the atmosphere change, i.e air pressure, temperature, humidity, wind speed. These determine the weather at a given time and location.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Climate <\/strong>describes the weather over a long period of time in a specific area. Different regions have different climates.  You might describe the climate of an area by looking at the average temperatures in each season, or precipitation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Weather or climate? Climate is what you expect, weather is what you get https:\/\/www.ncei.noaa.gov\/news\/weather-vs-climate Weather is the mix of events that happen each day in our atmosphere. Most weather happens in the troposphere closest to the ground. Different factors in the atmosphere change, i.e air pressure, temperature, humidity, wind speed. These determine the weather at &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/oeas220t\/introduction\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Weather or Climate<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":53,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/oeas220t\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/81"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/oeas220t\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/oeas220t\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/oeas220t\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/53"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/oeas220t\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/oeas220t\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/81\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":112,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/oeas220t\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/81\/revisions\/112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/oeas220t\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}