What is the difference between climate and weather.

Question

I hear people say bizarre things like, “It snowed more this year. There’s no global warming”.

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Answer 1

Not precisely your question, but ‘global warming’ is a dated term – *climate change* *is* making summers hotter (mostly) but it’s also making winters colder and introducing more extreme weather events.

In terms of climate vs weather – Climate is a general description of how weather in a region *usually* looks, whereas weather is a more granular day-to-day look at conditions. The climate might be ‘moderate rain during winter and spring, hot and humid during summer’, but the climate would never be ‘it’s raining today’