What's the difference between weather and climate?

Weather is the general name of atmospheric conditions (such as cold and warm, wind and rain, dry and wet, sunny and so on). ) and its changes in a short time in a certain area. Climate is the average or statistical state of meteorological elements and weather phenomena for a long time, and the time scale is months, seasons, years, years to hundreds of years.

2, the time is different:

The weather is short and changeable; The climate is long and generally does not change much.

3, the scope of use is different:

The scope of application of weather is very small, which refers to the change of sky conditions in a few days in a day, and climate is a large-scale description of the overall climate of a quarter and a place.

Extended data:

1. The weather process is the change process of weather phenomena with time in a certain area. All kinds of weather systems have certain time and space scales, and they are intertwined and influence each other.

The combination of many weather systems constitutes a large-scale weather situation and hemispheric and even global atmospheric circulation. The weather system is always in the process of rebirth, development and extinction, and there are corresponding weather phenomena in different development stages.

Second, the climate impact:

agriculture

Affect the distribution of crops, such as the difference between tropical fruits and temperate fruits; Affect the distribution of crop maturity, such as: one crop a year, three crops every two years, two crops a year; Affect the way of work, such as dry land, paddy field, oasis, etc. Affect the output of agricultural products, such as: good weather will lead to a higher harvest, otherwise the harvest will be low or no harvest.

Race:

People's appearance, personality and behavior are not completely dominated by human beings themselves, and this "power" is sometimes held in the "palm" of nature. People's tall, thin, red, yellow, black and white looks are not only related to human heredity, but also to climate.

References:

Baidu encyclopedia-climate

References:

Baidu encyclopedia-weather