Weather and climate
Weather and Climate
The basic consideration to distinguish between weather and climate is duration. Alternatively we can say that the difference between weather and climate is measure of time.weather consists of the short-term (minutes, days or months) changes in the atmosphere. However, climate is the average weather condition over a long time(years, decades or centuries) and space or region.
Weather
Weather can be defined by terms given as: temperature, humidity, precipitation, cloudiness, brightness, visibility, wind, and atmospheric pressure (as in high and low pressure) and in most places, it can change from minute-to-minute, hour-to-hour and day-to-day.
So as definition we can say that the short term atmospheric condition of any place is the weather, which may vary by time-to-time.
Weather may restrict transportation services, agricultural activities and other day to day occupations may be affected by weather.
We can observe the changes in the weather condition in frequent manner.
Weather forecasting is observed by the Meteorological Department of any particular region(place), and the weather study is known as Meteorology.
Weather is the situation happens for a small time, hence it's effect observed nearer the ground. So the changes in the weather are mostly observed in Troposphere. The factors which are responsible for causing these changes are temperature, humidity, air pressure, etc.
Now-a-days, it’s very to easy predict the weather of a given time and location.
Climate
Scientists define the climate as the average weather for a particular region and time period, usually taken over 30-years.
Climate is the presentation of the long-term pattern of weather in a particular area.
When we say about climate, we are considering averages of temperature, precipitation,wind velocity, sunshine hours, humidity, phenomenon such as fog, frost, hail storms and other elements of the weather that occur over a long duration in a certain area or place.
Climate affects agriculture services, industries services, the livelihood of the peoples for alng time and remedial measures of it become a challenge.
The changes in the climate take a long time, sometimes also takes centuries.
The Climate Prediction Centre in a particular large region predicts climate and its study is known as Climatology.
Climate conditions shows large areas - like countries, or any cities and It is the average of weather conditions over a long time and that area.
The record of the climate conditions like the hottest and/or coldest day, or the amount of rainfall, etc. is also maintained by the respective authority or people of that particular area, these records are used in predicting the climate of the upcoming time by comparing the records of the last few years.
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