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Weather, climate, meteorology

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. 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.

Meteorology refers to the state and phenomena of the atmosphere, such as wind, lightning, thunder, frost and snow.

It can be understood that weather is a short-term atmospheric state and phenomenon, climate is a long-term meteorological element and weather phenomenon, and meteorology is an atmospheric state and phenomenon.