The weather is an important part of our lives, influencing what we wear, what activities we enjoy and even how we feel.
Weather is the condition of the atmosphere at a particular time and place.
The atmosphere surrounds and protects the earth like an ocean of air. Earth's atmosphere burns up meteors before they can reach the earth and absorbs the sun's harmful radiation. The atmosphere is a mixture of gases composed primarily of nitrogen, oxygen, water vapor and carbon dioxide. Earth's atmosphere is separated into 5 distinct layers. The layer closest to the earth called the troposphere, is where most of our weather occurs.