Weather and climate

There is often confusion between weather and climate. Weather is the condition of the atmosphere at a particular place over a short period of time, whereas climate refers to the weather pattern of a place over a long period , long enough to yield meaningful averages.

Meteorology studies weather, while climatology studies climate; both are atmospheric sciences.

There are several elements that make up the weather and climate of a place. The major of these elements are the following: temperature, pressure, wind, humidity, and precipitation. Analysis of these elements can provide the basis for forecasting weather and defining its climate. These same elements make also the basis of climatology study, of course, within a longer time scale rather than it does in meteorology.

These are known as elements of weather.

The more important are also five: latitude, altitude, distance to the ocean and/ or sea, orientation of mountain ranges toward prevailing winds and ocean current.

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