Daily Dosage -Weather Vs Climate - Agricultural Meteorology

Weather Vs Climate

Definition of weather

• Modification of  Weather, except to a limited extent, is difficult and uneconomical. 
• Weather is a state or condition of atmosphere at a given place and at a given time
• Weather is daily variations or conditions of lower layers of atmosphere
• Weather pertains to smaller area like village, city, or even a district and smaller duration of time i.e, part of a day or complete day.
• Weather is expressed by numerical values of meteorological parameters.
• Example of weather are hot day, rainy day, cloudy weather, dry weather etc.,

Definition of Climate:

• Climate is generalized weather or summation of weather conditions over a given region during a comparatively longer period.
• Climate is weather condition related to larger areas like zone, state, country, part of continent or whole of continent, longer duration of time like month, season or year.
• Climate is expressed by normals and averages e.g., cold season, tropical climate etc.,