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eather v s Climate

Weather and Climate are two similar words with very different
meanings.

Weather refers to condition of the


atmosphere over a short period of
time, from minutes to days.

When scientists talk about climate,


Weather is what TV they're looking at averages of
presenters precipitation, temperature, humidity,
sunshine, wind velocity, phenomena such
forecast, like Sunny,
as fog, frost, and hail storms, and other
Cloudy, Windy,
measures of the weather that occur over
Storm, etc. a long period in a particular place.

Weather is basically the way the atmosphere is


behaving, mainly with respect to its effects upon life and If summers seem hotter lately, then
human activities. The difference between weather and the recent climate may have changed.
climate is that weather consists of the short-term
(minutes to months) changes in the atmosphere. The change in recent winter snows

indicate that the climate has changed

In most places, weather can


change from minute-to-
minute, hour-to-hour, day-
to-day, and season-to-
season. Climate, however, is
the average of weather over
time and space.

While climate means average weather of a place


over a period of many years. Climate is how the
atmosphere "behaves" over relatively long periods
Most people think of weather in terms of
of time. Some scientists define climate as the
temperature, humidity, precipitation,
average weather for a particular region and time
cloudiness, brightness, visibility, wind, and
atmospheric pressure, as in high and low
period, usually taken over 30-years. It's really an
pressure. average pattern of weather for a particular region.

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