There may have been times when you had to cancel a journey due to heavy rain; or your parents warned you of excessive heat and forbade you from playing outdoors. Have you ever wondered how to describe such changes, often sudden and unpredicted such as a rain, in the atmosphere? Is it a change in climate, or in weather?
Earth is able to support a wide variety of living beings because of its diverse regional climates. These climates range from extreme cold at the poles to tropical heat at the Equator. Regional climate is often considered as the average weather in a place over more than 3 years. A region’s climate, therefore, is often described as sunny, windy, dry, or humid.
However, these events can also describe the weather in a certain place, but while the weather can change in just a few hours, climate changes over a longer span of time.
Earth’s global climate is an average of regional climates. The global climate has either cooled or warmed for longer periods throughout history. Nowadays, however, we are experiencing unusually rapid warming of our planet.
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