Which statement best describes how water determines local weather patterns?

A. Precipitation only occurs in locations where there are large bodies of water that evaporate.

B.

Atmospheric water is affected by local winds, landforms, and ocean aurrents,

C. Humidity and clouds are stationary and cannot move from one location to another.

D.

Ocean currents cause the movement of water in the atmosphere to be erratic,

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Answer: B. Atmospheric water is affected by local winds, landforms, and ocean currents.

Explanation:

The weather refers to the condition of the atmosphere that includes the precipitation, cloudiness, pressure, visibility and temperature of air. The five factors which determines the weather pattern of an area are the availability of the solar radiation, local wind current and direction, elevation of the landforms like mountains, nearness of the water bodies like river and ocean, relative temperature of water and land, the number of storm involved in the thunderstorm, hurricanes and cyclones. These factors affect the amount of moisture in the atmosphere will result in the rainfall, humidity and hot dry day.

Based on above explanation, B is the correct option.