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What's the difference between climate and weather?

The earth's atmosphere is always changing, so the weather phenomena people see are always in an ever-changing state. Wan Li sometimes has clear skies and Wan Li, and sometimes it is cloudy and windy with sudden rain, which is characterized by rapid changes. Weather refers to the comprehensive situation of meteorological elements such as temperature, air pressure and temperature in a short period of time and atmospheric phenomena such as wind, clouds and rain caused by them.

Climate refers to the synthesis of weather conditions that happen occasionally in a certain area for many years and a special year. Climate and weather are closely related: weather is the basis of climate, and climate is the summary of weather. The climate characteristics of a place are reflected by the average values of various meteorological elements (temperature, humidity, precipitation, wind, etc.) for many years. ) and extreme values of special years. For example, the climate in Beijing: the average temperature in June is -4.7℃, July is 26. 1℃, the lowest temperature is -22.8℃( 195 1 year, 1 month,13rd), and the highest temperature is 42. The annual average precipitation is 636.8 mm, and the precipitation in summer (June-August) accounts for 74% of the annual precipitation. To sum up, Beijing's climate features are: cold and dry in winter, high temperature and rainy in summer.