What is the difference between weather and climate?
The air surrounding the earth is known as atmosphere. Its physical conditions keep changing from time to time. Sometimes it is very hot; sometimes it is cold; sometimes it rains. These changing conditions of the atmosphere form the weather. Weather can be defined as ‘the day-to-day atmospheric conditions of a place’. The weather conditions over a large area for a long time determine the climate of that area.
In other words, the kind of weather that a place generally has, year after year, is known as the climate of that place. We find different types of climate in different parts of the world. Some lands are quite cold all the year round, while some are warm throughout the year. The climate of a place is determined by many factors such as its distance from the equator, the direction of the winds, its distance from the sea and height above sea level.
