Difference between Climate and Weather

A lot of us tend to think that Climate and Weather are the same. I have heard some people even asking others, "How's the Climate today?" and the other party doesn't know what to say.

Well, the confusion is somehow justified as well because both the words refer to the same natural phenomena, but the different lies in their measurement time.

To put it in simple words, Climate is Weather over a long period of time, like 6 months or a year or even many years, whereas Weather is the instant phenomenon at a given hour or a day. Weather often changes frequently at many places during the day, sometimes changing every 15 minutes as well. However, on a longer average, climate doesn't change that frequently. If it changes that frequently, then it's doomsday for us.

Hence Global Warming is also referred to as Climate Change and not Weather change.

Next time when you greet someone, say "How's the Weather today?"

Cheers.

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Youtube's Amazing Feature

Lately I have been uploading some videos to my YouTube account. Since I has shot most of them using my HD enabled Smartphone, there were bouts were it resulted in shaky video moments.

I am not sure what kind of extreme algorithm YouTube uses, but then by asking it to correct the shakiness in the video, it produces amazing results.

I had read about some mathematical transforms which work on digital signals, and that includes pics and videos, which enable us to modify them as needed. And I believe the engineering team of YouTube must have found out some great combination to produce fantastic results.

Leave it on Google to deliver the best, Always.

To check out an example, please see the following link.

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Color Blind friendly Traffic Signals

Halifax is a city in Nova Scotia Province of Canada and it is one the cities deemed as color blind friendly. Look at the picture below

What a brilliant Idea to make traffic lights friendly for people suffering from Complete Color blindness. If not with the color, they can identify stop and go signs at least from the shape of the traffic lights.

How lucky I am to perceive Colors.

Sometimes, we tend to take even the most simplest things in life, gifted by God, for granted. I am referring to one of the conversation I had with my colleagues last week. This conversation revolved around the ability of how human eye can perceive colors so beautifully and this is something which no one should ever take for granted, because color-blindness is a reality and it happens with a lot of people.

So, during the conversation, I found out that two of my colleague suffers from color-blindness. That's when I realized how blessed I am to see all the beautiful colors in this world.

Now both of these guys suffer from two different types of the same disorder. One is called as Trichromancy, or inability to distinguish between three primary colors, basically red, blue or green. This causes them to see most of the shades or red as either gray or dark blue or dark red or dark green. Weird huh!!

The other one suffers from another type of partial color blindness called anomalous dichromancy, where he is unable to distinguish between shades of green and yellow, and specifically in his case, yellow. He once told me that he can see all darker shades of yellow as white or maybe light yellow, that too depends on the luminescence and the contrasting colors accompanying the yellow shade.

How lucky I am not to have this disorder. Thank god. To find out if you can identify most of the colors, check out this brilliant wikipedia page which lists all the possible color combinations.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_colors

Don't get disheartened if you are among the color-blinds. You can still live a normal and a healthy life. Its just your eyes and your brain tricking you, nothing else.

Learnt something new.

As a sourcing consultant, I do my due diligence of research for the categories that I am working on and I happened to read a couple of pages about the science behind the requirement of tires for cars. I learnt an interesting thing about something called as the aspect ratio of the tire. It is defined as the distance between the rim and the topmost edge of the tire and it is always expressed as a percentage of the width of the tire. That is the reason why it is called as Aspect ratio. Not this gives us how thick the tire is and how it can effectively lead to greater stability for the vehicle. The thumb rule is, higher the aspect ration, lower the stability while maneuvering through sharp edges and turns and the opposite is true as well. That is why, you will see most of the BMW's, Merc's and high end super car tires with lower aspect ratio. But the trade off comes at the cost of lower air buoyancy, which is actually the counter pressure exerted by the tire from the ground upwards which basically provides the fluidity to the vehicle to move forward. No wonder, Super cars are nick named as gas guzzlers. Now Ain't that interesting. Share it guys Knowledge Shared is Knowledge Earned.