I need to know this for my homework! Please help what's the difference between climate & weather?

Answer 1

What is the Difference Between Weather and Climate?

Weather is the day-to-day state of the atmosphere, and its short-term (minutes to weeks) variation. Popularly, weather is thought of as the combination of temperature, humidity, precipitation, cloudiness, visibility, and wind. We talk about the weather in terms of "What will it be like today?", "How hot is it right now?", and "When will that storm hit our section of the country?"

Climate is defined as statistical weather information that describes the variation of weather at a given place for a specified interval. In popular usage, it represents the synthesis of weather; more formally it is the weather of a locality averaged over some period (usually 30 years) plus statistics of weather extremes.

We talk about climate change in terms of years, decades or even centuries. Scientists study climate to look for trends or cycles of variability (such as the changes in wind patterns, ocean surface temperatures and precipitation over the equatorial Pacific that result in El Niño and La Niña), and also to place cycles or other phenomena into the bigger picture of possible longer term or more permanent climate changes.

Answer 2

Weather is the day-to-day state of the atmosphere, and its short-term (minutes to weeks) variation. Popularly, weather is thought of as the combination of temperature, humidity, precipitation, cloudiness, visibility, and wind. We talk about the weather in terms of "What will it be like today?", "How hot is it right now?", and "When will that storm hit our section of the country?"

Climate is defined as statistical weather information that describes the variation of weather at a given place for a specified interval. In popular usage, it represents the synthesis of weather; more formally it is the weather of a locality averaged over some period (usually 30 years) plus statistics of weather extremes.

We talk about climate change in terms of years, decades or even centuries. Scientists study climate to look for trends or cycles of variability (such as the changes in wind patterns, ocean surface temperatures and precipitation over the equatorial Pacific that result in El Niño and La Niña), and also to place cycles or other phenomena into the bigger picture of possible longer term or more permanent climate changes.

Answer 3

Climate is prolonged and unique to a particular region. Weather is more a general term and is controlled by the climate.

Answer 4

Climate is the typical weather for a region. Weather is what's actually happening today.

Answer 5

Climate is controlled by latitude and elevation, whereas weather is controlled by the heating and cooling of air and the amount of relative humidity. Weather can change rapidly but climate is changed slowly by geological events...ice ages, glacier melts,...hope this helps

Answer 6

climate is por long change in the atmospheric conditions.usually we collect the data of 30 year flood and check how the flood rate increase or decrease.this is climate modification or change.climate includes the phenomena like El-Ninon la-Ninon,tornado's.
weather is a rapid change.which occurs within hour and it is short period of time.example thunderstorm.we daily listen "weather news" not "climate news".this is daily life example.

Answer 7

its this simple, climate is a condition in a wide range region for a long period of time, while weather is for 24 hour in a small range area.

Answer 8

Weather is the description of the conditions: clear, cloudy, raining, snowing.
Climate is the description of the type of region:
Arid (like the desert) Mediterranean (dry but gets rain) Tropical (jungle).

Answer 9

climate = long-term and widespread
weather = short-term and local

Answer 10

This contains a decent answer to your question: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate