Weather versus climate?

Question

What's the difference between weather and climate?
You can't weather a tree but you can climate

I thought some people would choke :)

Answer 1

The weather is a summation of the conditions in a particular place at a particular moment. The climate is a general description of the weather conditions in a location over a long period of time. Here in Washington state near Puget Sound, for example, yesterday's WEATHER was be sunny and warm, but our CLIMATE in general tends to be cool, cloudy, and damp the majority of the time.

Answer 2

Perhaps the simplest definition of Climate versus Weather is: Climate is what you expect, Weather is what you get! The Climate around Ayers Rock (Uluru) in Australia's Northern Territory is generally hot and dry "The park receives an average rainfall of 307.7 mm (12.1 in) per year, and average temperatures are 37.8 °C (100.0 °F) in the summer and 4.7 °C (40.5 °F) in the winter. Temperature extremes in the park have been recorded at 45 °C (113 °F) during the summer and −5 °C (23 °F) during winter nights." Due to a tropical Cyclone blowing far inland at Christmas time, there was more than the average annual rainfall in one day, turning the Rock into a wall of waterfalls and flooding the surrounding desert. Does this mean the Climate has changed? No. 100,000 years ago, the average Global temperature was 2ºC warmer than it is now, and the Monsoons came to Uluru every year, so what is now arid desert had a wet season each year. That is Climate change. In those days the Australian Outback supported vastly more plant and animal life than it does now. It is interesting to reflect on why this 2ºC warmer climate predicted by the Warmists is only supposed to have a harmful effect on the environment. Frankly I can see an upside to the greening of the deserts. Why are only the most pessimistic effects of climate change brought to the attention of Governments? Maybe it is because of the staggering stupidity of commissioning Economists to report on the possible effects of Climate Change? Sir Nicholas Stern may be a competent economist but he doesn't know jack about Meteorology and Geology, so is prone to risk assessments that assume worst case scenarios as fact. Or maybe it is the fact that Governments need to be scared of Climate change to continue the massive funding to study it?

Answer 3

The weather is the set of all extant phenomena in a given atmosphere at a given time. The term usually refers to the activity of these phenomena over short periods (hours or days), as opposed to the term climate, which refers to the average atmospheric conditions over longer periods of time. When used without qualification, "weather" is understood to be the weather of Earth.

Climate is the average and variations of weather over long periods of time. Climate zones can be defined using parameters such as temperature and rainfall. Paleoclimatology focuses on ancient climate information derived from sediment found in lake beds, ice cores, as well as various fauna and flora including tree rings and coral. Climate models can be used to determine the amount of climate change anticipated in the future.

Answer 4

Integration of weather is climate.

Answer 5

weather is an event at a particular time.

Climate is an average of such events over a very long period of time.