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Climate in your place on the globe controls the weather where you live. Climate is the

average weather pattern in a place over many years. So, the climate of Antarctica is
quite different than the climate of a tropical island. Hot summer days are quite typical of
climates in many regions of the world, even without the effects of global warming.

Sunny Rainy Snowy Thunderstorms

Partly Sunny Hail Cloudy
If it’s raining on a particular day then we are talking about the weather, but if it’s raining

over a season for several years then we are talking of the climate. Weather can change
from hour to hour, or day to day and season to season. Climate can change over years.
Weather and climate greatly affect the socio, economic and cultural life of the people.

diffErENcE BEtWEEN WEathEr aNd climatE
The term ‘climate’ should not be confused with ‘weather’. They differ from each other in

the following ways :
Weather

• It can be changed many times in a day.

• Weather relates to the daily atmospheric changes and conditions.
• Weather changes occur over a small region.

Climate

• It remains constant for a long period.
• It represents atmospheric conditions over a longer period of time (about 35 years of

time period).
• Climate changes relate to a larger area.

tEmpEraturE

Temperature refers to the degrees of hotness or coldness of the air. The main source of this
heat is the insolation or the amount of the solar energy received by the earth. The amount
of heat depends upon the latitudinal location of any place. It is higher in places near the

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