What is the difference between weather and climate? Question 36 options: Weather occurs over hours and days, and climate occurs over seasons and years. Weather and climate are used interchangeably. Weather occurs over seasons and years, while climate occurs over hours and days. Weather occurs in the northern hemisphere, while climate occurs in the southern hemisphere.

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Chandler Bridges

30 May, 21:17

What is the difference between weather and climate? Question 36 options: Weather occurs over hours and days, and climate occurs over seasons and years. Weather and climate are used interchangeably. Weather occurs over seasons and years, while climate occurs over hours and days. Weather occurs in the northern hemisphere, while climate occurs in the southern hemisphere.

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Ronald Hammond · Answer 1

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First option: the weather is the combination of temperature, humidity, precipitation, cloudiness, visibility, and wind that occurs on a daily basis in the atmosphere in a specific place and time during a day, hour or week. It is meant to describe the state of the atmosphere only for a short term. On the other hand, climate refers to the average weather over a specific period of time (usually over 30 years) The climate may change in terms of decades, centuries or even millions of years.

So, to be clearer; you may say that the current (and exact) situation in your city (related to temperature, wind, precipitation, etc) that may change in a minute, is the weather. And the statistics of the weather in the past 30 years in your city allows you to determine its climate.

For example; usually, people say that the normal climate in England is cloudy and rainy because most of the time it is, but it doesn't mean that some days may have sunny and hot weather.