The Importance Of Weather Patterns In Northern Hemisphere

The process begins when the sun starts to heats up the surface which creates warm air. The warm, less heavy air rises and converges with the cold less heavy air above. This process is known as wind shears. Wind shears are when two

Moreover, the multi-century drought

When air undergoes a deflection from it’s path, and it is a result of earth’s rotation.

California is currently experiencing the worst drought in history and its not only affecting California – its affecting everyone. The California drought has become a slow movie disaster. You don’t realize how bad it is, until it hits you hard.

California is going on a four-year drought, having many devastating implications that are being felt by everyone in the state. The population hit the hardest has been the farmers of California. California, being economically driven by its agricultural production, is losing hundreds of thousands of jobs every year due to the lack of water. Farmers’ use 80% of water the state produces, directly influencing their production (Mieszkowski, 2014). The country heavily relies on California for much of its produce such as tomatoes, nuts, avocados, strawberries, broccoli, grapes and various others (Cooley et al. 2015). In 2014, harvested acreage was 6.9 million acres, the lowest it has been for the past 15 years. Farmers are now being forced to use significantly less land then before, but also ditch old irrigation techniques and implement new techniques to better conserve water; maximizing production as much as possible in order to combat the drought.

Over thousands of years water has been a very valuable element in our everyday lives. Now we are being faced with a shortage of water affecting not only us, but future generations as well. The drought has become an extreme issue that has affected the United States. For example, in Texas the dry spell has had an impact in families, politics and law, religion, health care, and mass media.

Recent mood events such as extremely high temperatures and widespread drought have focused government activity and public attention on the impacts of climate modification in Australia. Despite a slight increase in overall rain in Australia, rainfall patterns are expected to be problematic, as rain has become heavier and infrequent, with little or no uptrend in rainfall in the Western Tableland and the Central Lowlands of Australia. At the same time, Australia continues to have the highest per capita greenhouse gas emissions. Temperatures in Australia have also boost dramatically since 1910 and nights have become heater

Over the years the droughts in North America have become worse. In 2012 80% of America was affected by very dry months and this is only by mid July. Climate change also has an effect on our health as humans. In 2012, at least 74 Americans were killed from extreme heat. This is nothing compared to 2011. During 2011 there were at least 206 people died from extreme heat.

In the two short stories “Drought” by Roz Spafford, and “The Provincials”, by Daniel Alarcon, there is one common problem; a drought. In the story “Drought” it is a literal drought causing survival difficulties between a married couple, Chrissie and Clay, and their baby. It continues to get tough between the couple as they distance themselves from one another slowly falling apart. In “The Provincials” however there is a metaphorical drought in a Mexican town, where the father Manuel used to live and the son, Nelson the aspiring actor, lives and the residents lack the necessities to improve their lives while corruption attacks any generation that follows. The lack of essential necessities in “Drought” signifies death while the metaphorical drought in “The Provincials” leaves the town with no money or opportunity signifying causing hopeless lives.

While the drought was happening the farmers were trying to plow and plant and nothing was growing

When exploring Europe, Medieval Europe comes to mind. During the Medieval times, the people began to take on changes. Growth and recovery became major during these times, especially agriculturally. Weather patterns, society, technological innovations, and agriculture all play important roles to each other. When thinking weather patterns, one must think why would weather patterns play a major role?

Elnino is a warming cycle in the water that had been warming up every year. Every year the temperature has come to increase. This is very dangerous if the water gets too hot something can happen to the crops air and destroy everything in society if it becomes hotter. For now in 2017 the water cold increase in hurricane season . Thats is not good because it could damage our world even more , by creating more hurricanes. Heer are many topics on Elńino What is El´nino:” El Nino is a climate cycle in the Pacific Ocean with a global impact on weather patterns. The cycle begins when warm water in the western tropical Pacific Ocean shifts eastward along the equator toward the coast of South America.”(Jet Propulsion Laboratory)

According to scientific research, the average temperature of the earth has risen by between ten and twenty degrees Celsius (M.L. Weitzman, 2008). These high temperatures could well be described as a ‘recipe for disaster’, and could produce results that would be catastrophic on a global scale. What is more alarming however, is that there is already a lot of evidence of predicted results of climate change, for instance, in Australia especially, severe draughts have been common in farming areas in the last few decades, there has been an increase of intense and extreme weather events, for example floods, flash floods, tsunamis, earthquakes and tornados, almost all of the natural disasters listed have occurred for ‘unknown’ reasons in the past few years. Rises in sea water level and temperature due to higher acid levels caused by global warming, threaten the existence of species and in some areas, entire eco-systems resulting in the loss of natural biodiversity. ‘Climate change is pushing the world to the verge of environmental and economic collapse, whether global deniers want to believe it or not’ (N. Klein, 2011).

How they did not adapt to fit the drought: From there adoptions were not taken with the sudden environment change people had no way to fit back. Currently, 12 million are living in the drought. Communities are collapsed and livelihoods destroyed (Girard, 2011). Refugee Camps are being pushed to the limit holding 400,000 people when designed for the capacity of 90,000(Stewart). This is only the begin of the struggle because so many people are already trying to help, but war torn countries continue.

The intertropical convergence zone (ITCZ) is a permanent low-pressure feature that lies on the meteorological equator. It is characterisied by lots of cloud cover and precipitation (Andrews et al., 2003). The ITCZ plays a significant role in the climate and weather events in the tropics. The clouds created by the ITCZ also provide an important form of albedo in the tropics (Waliser and Gautier, 1993),which has an effect on global climate. Tropical events such as monsoon and cyclones occur in the ITCZ and are products of the unique convection system found around the ITCZ (Yancheva et al., 2007, Ferreira and Schubert, 1997).The ITCZ is a product of humid trade winds from the northern and southern hemisphere converging and then rising. This rising of humid air usually results in precipitation over the tropics(Waliser and Somerville, 1994). This rising of the humid air acts as the driving force in the Hadley Cell (Waliser and Somerville, 1994). The ITCZ is a product of high levels of solar radiation and high amounts of latent heat released from the ocean (Andrews et al., 2003). It is important to realize that the ITCZ moves throughout the year depending on the seasons, it is likely to be found in the southern hemisphere in the southern hemisphere summer and in the northern hemisphere during the northern hemispheres summer. However the ITCZ is more likely to be found in the Northern hemisphere (Waliser and Somerville, 1994). The ITCZ plays a large role in many of the climatic