Weather changes daily like rain, sun or wind. Climate is the usual weather in a place over many years. Weather is short-term, but climate lasts long.

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 ...

Climate is a description of the average weather conditions in a certain place for the past 30 or so years. Different areas of the world have different climates. We call these climate zones.

But a few days of snow does not mean that the Earth is not getting warmer. “People mix up weather and climate,” Weaver said in a telephone interview from Victoria. He described weather as what ...