Question

For each of the following statements, indicate if it describes weather or climate, and briefly explain why. If you think a statement could describe both weather or climate, explain why that could be.

Answer 1

1.It has not snowed yet today.
2.In October, temperatures begin to drop.
3.This summer should be hotter than normal.
4.The humidity dropped overnight.
5.A thunderstorm cancelled our softball game.
6.It has never gone below 32°F in the month of December.
7.The high temperature yesterday was 10 degrees above normal.
8.The clouds are rolling in.
9.One of the strongest blizzards hit New York in February 2007, leaving about 6 feet of snow.
10.Texas is hot and humid and Arizona is hot and dry during the summer.
11.The skies were clear until an hour ago.
12.The air pressure dropped.
13.We had a lot more rain last year than this year.
14.Another tornado hit Kansas City.
15.Winds blew at 35 mph today.

Answer 2

can someone atleast do have of it.

Answer 3

Weather is the term applied to specific short term phenomena, like "It rained all last week" or "There was a tornado." Climate applies to long term conditions. For example, "There is more rain in the summer now than there was a hundred years ago" describes a climate trend. There's the half of it which involves understanding the difference between the two; you can do the half of it which involves classifying the statements.

Answer 4

What causes the northern and southern halves of the planet to experience winter and summer at opposite times?