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What is Climate?

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Weather is the day-to-day result of the Earth's churning atmosphere which redistributes heat and water around our planet. Climate is a description of the average weather in a region over a period of several years. When we talk about climate, we are describing long-term, 30-40 year patterns of temperature and precipitation in different regions of the world.

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