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Old 01-07-2017, 03:23 PM
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Sad news out of Antarctica yesterday. Big ice shelf busting up. http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/ice...ry?id=44598633

Weather and Climate not only are spelled differently but represent two different things describing conditions. One is the right now the other trends in an overview or overall.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weather
""Weather is the state of the atmosphere, to the degree that it is hot or cold, wet or dry, calm or stormy, clear or cloudy.""

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate
""Climate is the statistics of weather, usually over a 30-year interval. It is measured by assessing the patterns of variation in temperature, humidity, atmospheric pressure, wind, precipitation, atmospheric particle count and other meteorological variables in a given region over long periods of time.""

""Climate differs from weather, in that weather only describes the short-term conditions of these variables in a given region.""

But what does wiki know? When the Donald is the smartest man alive!

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