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7 April 2007
The Difference Between Weather and Climate
I invariably get emails from people when we have a cold snap. They usually contain something along the line of “how can you say the globe is warming when we have weather like this?” The explanation is that people often confuse weather and climate. Weather is what you get. Climate is what you expect. It is a very cold night across most of the Eastern parts of North America as …
Dan Satterfield has worked as an on air meteorologist for 32 years in Oklahoma, Florida and Alabama. Forecasting weather is Dan's job, but all of Earth Science is his passion. This journal is where Dan writes about things he has too little time for on air. Dan blogs about peer-reviewed Earth science for Junior High level audiences and up.