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Re: (meteorobs) Meteors and meteorology - some more about meteorology
--- Rosely Gregio <gregio@dglnet.com.br> wrote:
> Star Greetings!
>
> Meteor [Of the gr. meteors, for the lat. scholastic
> meteora.]
> S. m.
> Any phenomenon that happens in the terrestrial
> atmosphere: rain, hail,
> snows, wind, northerly dawn, lightning, thunder,
> shooting star, etc.
> For the that I see it is everything related to each
> other:)
Meteorology (weather) is restricted to the troposphere, the lower 10 miles of our atmosphere. Meteors burn up far above that, in the rarified parts incapable of "weather phenomena". The connection implied by the great similarity in the word roots just doesn't seem to be there.
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