weather patterns
Skies' recurring behaviors
Weather patterns are the recurring atmospheric conditions—temperature, precipitation, wind, and pressure systems—that characterize a region over time.
Meteorologists track weather patterns to forecast storms, droughts, and seasonal changes.
The term often appears in discussions of climate: El Niño disrupts normal weather patterns across the Pacific.
Weather patterns can be local phenomena or span entire continents, and their study helps predict everything from daily forecasts to long-term climate trends.
- meteorologyStudy of atmospheric phenomena
- polar vortexPersistent circulating cold air mass
- climatePrevailing atmospheric conditions
- precipitationAtmospheric water deposit
- El NiñoPeriodic Pacific warming event
jet streams · monsoons · atmosphere · trade winds · tropical storms · storm chasing · anticyclones · urban heat islands · Indian summer · changing seasons · desert winds · squall lines · thunderstorms · drought conditions · barometric · fronts · rainfall · wind
- Mountain Climatehigh altitude, thin air, altitude, snowfall, temperature extremes
- climate statisticsclimate modeling, climate models, climate prediction, climate data, climatology
- atmosphereair, humidity, atmosphere, temperature, oxygen
- weatherrain, sun, snow, wind, cloud
- climateclimate change, climate, global warming, temperature, greenhouse effect
- meteorologyrain, wind, snow, clouds, storms