What's the difference between the concepts of weather and climate?

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. Climate is measured by the characteristics of cold, warm, dry and wet, and is usually characterized by the average value and deviation value of a certain period. The formation of climate is mainly caused by the change of heat.

Weather refers to the specific state of the near-surface atmosphere in a short time. Weather phenomenon refers to various natural phenomena in the atmosphere, that is, the comprehensive expression of the spatial distribution of various meteorological elements in the atmosphere (such as temperature, pressure, humidity, wind, clouds, fog, rain, snow, frost, lightning, hail, etc.). ) in an instant. The weather process is the change process of weather phenomena with time in a certain area.

To put it bluntly, this phenomenon has occurred for different lengths of time.