Yes!! Learning about weather is going to be so great because we already know A LOT about these things!
The first concept we want to clear up is the difference between climate and weather.
Climate is the AVERAGE temperatures of certain places on Earth over a long period of time. It could be 30 years, 100 years or 1000 years. Climate is the long term temperatures for a country or area, like the equator.
Weather happens daily.
When we get dressed in the morning we don't dress for climate...we dress for weather.
If we want to travel to Iceland for a couple of weeks, we need to know the type of climate so we can dress appropriately. Iceland in winter is always on average, cold, snowy and dark!
The Earth's climate has stayed the same for many thousands of years. The climate will never change over night. We can wake up tomorrow morning and Hawaii will still be warm and balmy. But we might wake up tomorrow and it may be snowing at your house, but not at your school.
In some places the weather changes a couple of times during the day...
If you want to see some crazy phenomena...weather is the best!!
I didn't know that the climate was the average weather and heat. I just thought it was the average of every days weather.
ReplyDeleteI thought the climate was a synonym for weather.
ReplyDelete*Actually Iceland is the green place and Greenland is the icy place. The early Nordic settlers were trying to keep the good lands for themselves and to send competing settlers to bad lands that they didn't want. But, Iceland would probably still be cold and dark in the winter.
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