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Weather Climate uly “Weather is what you get; Climate is what you expect ” Weather consists of the short-term (minutes to days) variations in the atmosphere Weather is expressed in terms of temperature, humidity, precipitation, cloudiness, visibility and wind Climate is the slowly varying aspect of the atmosphere-hydrosphere-land surface
average pattern over many years changes, it could be a sign of climate change Climate refers to the average weather conditions in a place over many years (usually at least 30 years, to account for the range of natural variations from one year to the next) For example, the climate in Minneapolis is cold and snowy in the winter, while
August 2020 Climate and Weather Page 5 Technical Reference Figure 3 – Typical Building Profile for Energy and Temperature While energy may increase at higher and lower temperatures, there is a large amount of base load
Weather normalized energy is the energy your building would have used under average conditions (also referred to as climate normals) The weather in a given year may be much hotter or colder than your building’s normal climate; weather normalized energy accounts for this difference Note that the adjustment is for weather only, but not climate
This is climate, the average weather, what you expect If you give someone a fresh bag, you can't predict the weather—whether the next candy out of the bag will be blue or orange—but you can predict trends in the weather You can say, with con?-dence, that there won't be 10 orange candies in a row That would be very unlikely
like deserts or tundras Considering this, there are some major differences in forecasting weather versus climate Weather predictions can be very accurate when made between 3-14 days Whereas climate predictions can be made decades in advance based on different climatic patterns that can span over decades, using