Weather is Not Climate February 10, 2024
What is the difference between weather and climate? It is quite complicated and quite frankly arbitrary and I personally do not like the NOAA definition of climate but this blog post sheds a little light on the subject.
It was posted in late January and it contains three short YouTubes you can watch that show how averaging turns weather into climate. It is not as precise as I would like but it at least starts the conversation. The post was written by Michelle L’Heureux
As many of the ENSO Bloggers do from time to time they intertwine the science with personal experience which may help in understanding the concept.
The official NOAA definition of Climate is the average over the last three completed decades so currently that is 1991 -2020. I do not like that definition because it does not reflect the influence of long cycles such as the AMO and PDO but I can not think of a better definition.
You can read the Blog Post with the comments HERE But I have reproduced most of the post in this article with some of my comments so click “Read More” to read my article.