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Climate and Weather

Are Climate and Weather the same? 

  • Climate is often confused with weather however there is a key difference between weather and climate.
  • Weather is the instantaneous state of the atmosphere and the world around us. It is mainly limited to short term variations over a period of minutes or days on temperature, precipitation, humidity, air pressure, cloudiness, radiation, wind, and visibility etc.
  • Climate is the statistics of weather over a long period of time such as the “average of weather” over a period of time.

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Climate is what we expect. Weather is what you get.img00014.jpg