Weather is immediate
Today's temperature, wind and precipitation are weather.
Climate summarizes patterns
A climate description includes averages, ranges, extremes and seasonal behaviour over long periods.
One event does not define climate
A hot day or cold week is a data point within a much larger record.
Climate shapes probabilities
Long-term change alters the background conditions in which individual weather events occur.
Source trail: NOAA: weather & atmosphere
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