I hear people say bizarre things like, “It snowed more this year. There’s no global warming”.
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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’
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Weather is day-to-day stuff while climate is more overall trends. The weather tomorrow might be cold, or hot, but the climate would describe how hot or cold or windy or inconsistent the weather is over a longer period.
Florida has a hot climate but it can still experience cold weather.
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’
Weather is an event; a snowstorm, a heatwave, a sudden rainshower.
Climate is a pattern or trend. The number of “once in a century” storms increasing over time is climate, even though each of those individual storms is weather or a weather pattern. It might snow more this year than last, but if the overall trend from the past 10 years is still moving towards less snow, then that’s not indicative of anything.
Additionally, climate change doesn’t simply mean that temperatures are increasing. The reason that “global warming” has fallen out of favor as compared to “climate change” is because meteorologists and scientists have observed that you get more extreme weather events, not just warmer weather. Places that used to get plenty of rainfall will get less, while places that didn’t get much might be subject to more flash flooding.
The title appears to be something different from the text.
Weather is day-to-day stuff while climate is more overall trends. The weather tomorrow might be cold, or hot, but the climate would describe how hot or cold or windy or inconsistent the weather is over a longer period.
Florida has a hot climate but it can still experience cold weather.
Weather is an event; a snowstorm, a heatwave, a sudden rainshower.
Climate is a pattern or trend. The number of “once in a century” storms increasing over time is climate, even though each of those individual storms is weather or a weather pattern. It might snow more this year than last, but if the overall trend from the past 10 years is still moving towards less snow, then that’s not indicative of anything.
Additionally, climate change doesn’t simply mean that temperatures are increasing. The reason that “global warming” has fallen out of favor as compared to “climate change” is because meteorologists and scientists have observed that you get more extreme weather events, not just warmer weather. Places that used to get plenty of rainfall will get less, while places that didn’t get much might be subject to more flash flooding.
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’
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Weather is an event; a snowstorm, a heatwave, a sudden rainshower.
Climate is a pattern or trend. The number of “once in a century” storms increasing over time is climate, even though each of those individual storms is weather or a weather pattern. It might snow more this year than last, but if the overall trend from the past 10 years is still moving towards less snow, then that’s not indicative of anything.
Additionally, climate change doesn’t simply mean that temperatures are increasing. The reason that “global warming” has fallen out of favor as compared to “climate change” is because meteorologists and scientists have observed that you get more extreme weather events, not just warmer weather. Places that used to get plenty of rainfall will get less, while places that didn’t get much might be subject to more flash flooding.
The title appears to be something different from the text.
Weather is day-to-day stuff while climate is more overall trends. The weather tomorrow might be cold, or hot, but the climate would describe how hot or cold or windy or inconsistent the weather is over a longer period.
Florida has a hot climate but it can still experience cold weather.
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