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7 Climate in
India
Let's Find Out :
Difference between weather and climate
Factors determining the climate of India
Seasons of India
You may have heard people saying, ‘It is sunny today’ or ‘Yesterday it was cloudy all
through the day’. When people use words such as ‘sunny’ and ‘cloudy’ to explain
how the day is, they actually talk about the ‘weather’ of a place at a certain time.
Summer day Winter day Rainy day
Weather
Weather is the day-to-day change in the atmosphere around us. The weather of
a place may change continuously. It can be sunny one day and cloudy the next
day. On some days it may snow, and on other days it may rain. Weather may even
change within a few hours in one single day. Thus, the weather tells us about the
condition of sunshine, rain, wind, snow and temperature of a place at a certain
time.
You may have heard the weather news on television and radio, or seen it on the
Internet. The information on how the weather will be next day or in the near future
is known as a weather forecast.
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