what is the difference between.....................?

Question

what is the difference between climate and weather? i need a good answer. best one receives 10 points!!!!!!!

Answer 1

Climate is the average or typical conditions for a given time of year in a location. Weather is the immediate or near immediate conditions for a location. Ex: An area with a dry climate can have wet weather.

Answer 2

Weather is the immediate to short term conditions of a local environment (ie. your town or region)and the common indicators are: Temperature, Wind speed and direction, Precipitation and
in some areas or seasons the percentage of cloud cover. Pollution such as smog or haze are also factors.

Climate is the regional environmental conditions expected to exist annually (over a normal year...not an average, but a typical year).
For example: A Tropical climate has normally a wet, and a dry season, with a relatively minor range of temperatures within each season (hot days warm nights), and snow is out of the question, while an Arctic climate might have a few hot days in the peak of summer (long daylight hours), but winter is expected to be long, dark (virtually no sunlight), cold and usually dry (some snow). Climates are mostly affected by latitude (the intensity of the sun) and by proximity to oceans (availability of seasonal moisture). El nino affects the weather sometimes significantly, but it is just a part of the normal climatic cycle. Climate is what you expect when you go on holiday in Mexico in the winter, weather is what you get when you are there :).

Answer 3

The climate is commonly considered to be the weather averaged over a long period of time, typically 30 years. Somewhat more precisely, the concept of "climate" also includes the statistics of the weather — such as the degree of day-to-day or year-to-year variation expected.

Weather is an all-encompassing term used to describe all of the many and varied phenomena that can occur in the atmosphere of a planet. The term is normally taken to mean the activity of these phenomena over short periods of time, usually no more than a few days in length. Average atmospheric conditions over significantly longer periods are known as climate. Usage of the two terms often overlaps and the concepts are obviously very closely related.

climate vs. weather

In the most succinct words, weather is the combination of events in the atmosphere and climate is the overall accumulated weather in a certain location.

The exact boundaries of what is climate and what is weather are not well defined and depend on the application. For example, in some senses an individual El Niño event could be considered climate; in others, as weather.

When the original conception of climate as a long-term average came to be considered, perhaps towards the end of the 19th century, the idea of climate change was not current, and a 30 year average seemed reasonable (note 1). Given the current availability of data on long-term trends in the temperature record, it is harder to give a definition of climate to suit all purposes: over a 30 year period, averages may shift; over a shorter period, the statistics are less stable.

In a given geographical region, the climate generally does not vary over time on the scale of a human life span. However, over geological time, climate can vary considerably for a given place on the Earth. For example, Scandinavia has been through a number of ice ages over hundreds of thousands of years (the last one ending about 10,000 years ago). Paleoclimatology is the study of these past climates, their origin, and by extension, the origin of today's climate.

Answer 4

The climate is like the pretty much constant outside conditions of a place. Alaska's climate is colder than Florida's. Weather is just variations within that climate. Cold-climate Alaska may have a nice sunny day, while warm-climate Florida has a hurricane.

Answer 5

My vote goes to "Science Teacher". ST's right on the money.

Kim Chee's answer is just a cut and paste from winnipeggia dot com or something like that. No thought at all to the actual answer.

Answer 6

You BUY clothes that suit the climate.
You WEAR clothes that suit the weather.

(OK, not completely scientific, but true anyway!)