Weather Variability Quotes

Climate is what we expect, weather is what we get.

In the Spring, I have counted 136 different kinds of weather inside of 24 hours.

The first big effects will be farmers that live on the edge. Today's weather, they barely get by. Their kids, a high percentage are malnourished, and so if you impose more variable weather and more heat, you're getting more floods, more droughts, and during the germination time, the high heat, most crops...do poorly when there's more heat.

The weather in New York, it fluctuates so much. Some days it's humid, some days you have a thunderstorm.

Global warming is actually a misnomer. It should be global extremes and global swings, because you add - as you add more energy into the atmosphere, it sloshes around. Energy doesn't simply uniformly warm up the planet. And that means droughts in one area, enormous snowstorms in another area, 100-year floods here, 100-year forest fires there.

Anyone who says there is not a change in weather patterns is denying reality.

An English summer's day is wonderful, but sometimes you have to look hard to find one!

Don't knock the weather; nine-tenths of the people couldn't start a conversation if it didn't change once in a while.

If you don't like the weather in Oklahoma, wait a minute and it'll change.

One of the brightest gems in the New England weather is the dazzling uncertainty of it.

Nobody can tell about this California climate. One minit its hot and the next minit its cold, so a person never knows what to hock.

In Punjab wheat production it is a 'gamble of temperature' unlike other parts of the country where there is a 'gamble of rainfall'.

In particular, Australia, because of its ancient geography, soil profile and distinctive weather patterns, is more adversely affected by climate variability than some other continents.

Can you name a state in the United States that doesn't get some interesting weather every now and then? No!

I've lived in good climate, and it bores the hell out of me. I like weather rather than climate.

You can't say for certain what will happen to the weather in the long term.

Spring has many American faces. There are cities where it will come and go in a day and counties where it hangs around and never quite gets there. Summer is drawn blinds in Louisiana, long winds in Wyoming, shade of elms and maples in New England.

Mississippi farmers and ranchers continually deal with factors that can mean disaster, which is why they look for certainty and flexibility in farm programs.

The conditions change so much at the French Open, you know, you have to be prepared for something you really don't know what it is. You can practice in the morning and it's fine, and the weather is great then you come to play in the afternoon and it is drizzly and the conditions are totally different.

When you play in New England you have cold weather, hot weather, windy weather, or snow.

There is a sumptuous variety about the New England weather... In the spring I have counted one hundred and twenty-six different kinds of weather inside of four and twenty hours.

Farming is not for the feint of heart. It is fraught with the possibility of failure.

In Wales, it's eight different weathers in a day.

I miss L.A. because of the weather. It can change so much in Calgary. You can get a storm one minute, and then the sun will come out and it will be hot.

In Los Angeles, it's always nice out. In New York, it can be nice out or horrifying. You really have no idea what you're going to get on any given day.