Name: Mallachi
Period:
Weather V. Climate, Circa Aug. 2020
Weather and climate may seem to be the same entity but there are crucial
differences between the two that one must understand in order to understand
the effects that events have on either the weather or the climate. The weather
is what we can see when we look out the window. It might be a sunny day with
children playing soccer games outside or a rainy day when all you can see is a
sea of umbrellas. We might use the weather to predict whether or not we will
have a white Christmas. The climate, on the other hand, is measured over
periods of at least 30 years, while sometimes spanning centuries. Let's say we
are looking at an artic environment and this particular environment has had a
warmer winter, much warmer than the average for this artic region, and is
caused by melting ice caps. Would this change be classified as a change in
weather or climate? When might the classification change?
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