“The Maritimes will see a good number of cold rains, and many days filled with wintry mix storms bringing in snow, sleet, ice and rain,” The Farmer’s Almanac site warns. Heavy snowfall is predicted to particularly blanket Quebec and Ontario. Temperatures, the forecasts warn, could plummet as low as -40 degrees Celsius in areas such as the Rockies and Prairies during the month of January. The annual periodical, released Tuesday, is forecasting one of the coldest winters in recent years. Climate, however, is the average of weather over time and space.Canadians should brace themselves for a winter of record-breaking cold temperatures, according to the long-range weather predictions in the latest issue of The Farmers' Almanac Extended Winter Weather Forecast. In most places, weather can change from minute-to-minute, hour-to-hour, day-to-day, and season-to-season. So when we are talking about climate change, we are talking about changes in long-term averages of daily weather. If you’ve ever heard your local weather person say “today we hit a record high for this day,” she is talking about climate records.
The climate record also includes extreme values such as record high temperatures or record amounts of rainfall. For example, you can expect snow in the Northeast in January or for it to be hot and humid in the Southeast in July. That’s the weather.Ĭlimate is the average of that weather. So, for example, it may be 75° degrees and sunny or it could be 20° degrees with heavy snow. Weather is what you see outside on any particular day. Think about it this way: Climate is what you expect, weather is what you get. There is, however, still a lot of confusion over the difference between the two. And climate change is certainly a “hot” topic in the news. Most of us check the local weather forecast to plan our days. We hear about weather and climate all of the time.
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