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No matter where people live, they must think about itwhether When most people ponder the weather, they instinctively look to the sky The atmosphere does not determine the weather by itself. It has a less obvious but essential partner: the ocean. The disastrous El Nio of the past year increased public awareness that many unusual events all over the globerelentless series of storms, prolonged droughts, massive floodswere directly caused by changing conditions in the tropical Pacific Ocean Effects range from storms and hurricanes generated over hours and days to ice ages that develop over millennia. In between, the ocean is the engine that drives seasonal shifts in weather, such as monsoons, and sporadic events, such as El Nio. Some of the most familiar weather systems occur at middle latitudes, although the driving forces behind this activity are oceans far away Near the equator the energy gained from the sun exceeds the amount lost in this way, but at higher latitudes the reverse occurs. The ocean and the atmosphere work together like a planetary thermostat, sharing nearly equally the task of exporting heat from equatorial regions toward the poles. The ocean also generates intense storms at lower latitudes, in or around certain tropical regions. In the western Atlantic and eastern Pacific off Mexico and California, these storms are called hurricanes after the Mayan god of winds, Hunraken. Each hurricane develops from some original eddy in the wind that causes a low-pressure center to form. Such disturbances may initially be small and innocuous. But if conditions in the ocean and the upper atmosphere are right, about 10 percent of them intensify into full-fledged hurricanes. Air moves inward from all directions toward the low-pressure center of the developing hurricane, picking up moisture evaporating from the warm ocean. As more and more air converges toward the central low-pressure void, or the eye, of the storm, it has no place to go but upward, where it creates clusters of thunderstorms and releases large amounts of rain and latent heat.

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After reading this article I believe the authors was tell in that the atmosphere and the ocean create climate changes and deepening on where the plant is tilted and how the winds are blowing depends on. If you environmental phenomenons or not such as typhoons, hurricanes, tornados etc. Also the article tell you El Nino/ La Nino are at the center of this all El Nino more warm water, La Nino more cold water.

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This article was telling me about the plant fascinating abilities. How the atmosphere and the ocean controls the plant weather and depending on where those weather changes accrue and how the plant is tilted/pointed. Depend on if youre going to get environmental phenomenon such as earthquakes, hurricanes, tornados etc. This article talked allot about hurricanes and how they from and where they would form.