What are differences between Weather and Climate?

Weather is the condition of the atmosphere at a particular location and moment. Each day current weather conditions are given in local weather reports. On the other hand, Climate is the collective state of the atmosphere for a given place over a specified interval of time. There are three parts of climate definition.

  1. Location: because climate can be defined for a globe, a continent, a region, or a city.

  2. Time: because climate must be defined over a specified interval. National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) typically uses 30-year averages, whereas studying Earth’s history often involves averages of a century or longer.

  3. Averages and extremes of variables: such as temperature, precipitation, pressure & winds

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