Weather is an all-encompassing term used to describe all of the many and varied phenomena that can occur in the atmosphere of a planet. The term is normally taken to mean the activity of these phenomena over short periods of time, usually no more than a few days in length. Average atmospheric conditions over significantly longer periods are known as climate. Usage of the two terms often overlaps and the concepts are obviously very closely related.

Basic mechanism

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Weather phenomena result from temperature differences around the globe, which arise mainly because areas closer to the tropics, around the equator, receive more energy from the Sun than more northern and southern regions, nearer to the Earth's poles.

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Schiffer wins handily; Patton takes Republican slot to replace Iekel
Wed, 20 Aug 2008 02:09:10 -0600
Legislative veteran John Schiffer, R-Kaycee, appears to have hung on to the Senate District 22 seat for another term.
Zwonitzer, Pedersen easily advance
Wed, 20 Aug 2008 02:09:10 -0600
CHEYENNE -- Rep. David Zwonitzer and former state lawmaker Bryan Pedersen, both of Cheyenne, easily defeated their opponents in Tuesday's Republican primary election races for the state House of Representatives.
Barbuto wins close, Stough wins big
Wed, 20 Aug 2008 02:09:10 -0600
GREEN RIVER -- Perhaps the youngest state candidate in Wyoming this year is headed to Cheyenne after Democrat Joe Barbuto narrowly defeated Tony Herrera in the House District 48 primary election Tuesday night.
Wyo tribe mourns 3 teens, loss of cultural ties
Wed, 20 Aug 2008 02:09:10 -0600
WIND RIVER INDIAN RESERVATION -- Rows of rundown houses sit among stunted trees on a bleak, wind-swept plateau. The nearest mountains are a faint smudge on the horizon, and a boarded-up house marks the end of the road.
Wyoming briefs
Tue, 19 Aug 2008 23:39:18 -0600
Group hopes to leave with Bibles SHERIDAN n After holding out in China for three days, four members of Sheridan-based Vision Beyond Borders plan to leave for Thailand today and hope to take 315 Bibles that were confiscated by Chinese customs officials with them.
China confiscates Sheridan group's Bibles
Tue, 19 Aug 2008 08:00:08 -0600
SHERIDAN -- Four members of Sheridan-based Vision Beyond Borders are holding out in a Kunming, China, hotel, hoping and praying their confiscated Bibles will be returned and they will be allowed to distribute them to Chinese Christians.

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