- So the primary difference between climate and weather
is scale.
So weather is what we experience on the day to day.
So things like temperature and precipitation
that change really rapidly over space and over time.
So for example, it might be raining heavily in one area,
but if you drive an hour away, it might be sunny and clear.
Or it might be 85 degrees today and 70 degrees tomorrow.
- But if we looked at, say,
what was the weather like today last year?
What was the weather like today the year before?
And we kept averaging all that up.
Say we go back 30 years, right?
Then we start to get some sort of average.
And that average and maybe the variation around that average
is what climate is.