Despite their differences, weather and climate are often mentioned as a pair. So much so, in fact, that 35% of Americans believe the two mean pretty much the same thing, according to a study in ...

People often ask, “What is the difference between climate and weather?” Although climate and weather are closely related, there are some important differences. The simple explanation defines ...

This image is just a one-year snap shot of global temperatures. The globe is warming, there is absolutely no doubt about that - you can read all about it in NOAA's 2015 State of the Climate Report.

Weather and climate are often used in the same sentences and are too often thought to be interchangeable. The thing is, weather and climate are NOT the same thing. Weather is what is happening ...

Climate is weather over a long duration. Changes in the climate created by human-induced global warming are having and will ...

But there most of the similarities end. The main differences between weather and climate come down to a single concept: “initialisation”, or the starting point of a model. In many cases ...

Subscribe today. Let’s get one thing straight: Weather is not climate. Look, I get it. It’s easy to conflate the two. After all, climate is the average of all the weather recorded over a peri ...

For example, if a city experiences a rainy day, that is the weather. However, if the city is known for receiving heavy rainfall every year, that is its climate. Understanding the difference ...

We work out what the climate in a place is by looking at the average weather for about 30 years, and seeing how warm or cold, rainy and windy it is during that time. The climate is different ...