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Hi, i was wondering why different regions experience different climates at different times of the year? i looked it up on google, but its all really complicated so i was wondering if someone could help me and tell me breifly about this subject. i know that "the earth spins and thats just that way it is" so please dont say something like that. please just give me a normal no-complex answer, but still full and explaining.

Thank you so much!

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  • 9 years ago
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    "Weather" is what we have today. "It's raining." "It's sunny." "It's cold."

    "Climate" is what you learn to expect after watching a hundred years worth of weather. "Summers are hot in Phoenix." "Seattle has rainy winters" "Maine gets a lot of snow in winter."

    When Phoenix has a sunny sky and a temperature of 110F in July, while Seattle has 68F and has rain, the two "regions" are experiencing different weather. Weather depends upon a large number of factors that are so difficult to accurately balance in their effects on the weather that even supercomputers can only come up with accurate "weather" forecasts for about three to four days. Beyond that, weather forecasts are less accurate. Beyond two weeks, weathermen and computers have to guess, based upon "climate" models.

    So, simply, Montreal, Miami, and San Francisco have different weather because of their latitudes (how close to the equator or north pole), what side of the continent they're on, how close they are to an ocean, what direction the winds generally blow, how much sunlight they're getting (which depends upon the time of year, less sun in winter, more in summer), what mountains are near, how much of the ground is covered by snowfall, how much vegetation is growing (spring & summer) or dormant (winter), and numerous other factors all add to the variation in weather, and climate.

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