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CLIMATE AND CLIMATE CHANGE

Climate and weather are not the same thing. Weather is what happens every day. Climate is a summary of a region’s weather conditions–temperatures, rainfall, winds, and so on–collected and averaged over a number of years.

Climate change is a shift in these long-term average weather conditions. This can include temperature changes (both warming and cooling) and altered rainfall patterns, as well as more frequent occurrences of hazardous weather events like heavy spring rains and heat waves.