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difference between season and climate​

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Climate

Season

Definition

Climate is the average conditions that are expected at a certain place over a number of years.

Season is each of the four divisions of the year (spring, summer, autumn, and winter) marked by particular weather patterns and daylight hours, resulting from the earth’s changing position with regard to the sun.

Origin of the word

Late Middle English: from Old French climat or late Latin clima, climat-, from Greek klima 'slope, zone', from klinein 'to slope'.

Middle English: from Old French seson, from Latin satio(n-) 'sowing', later 'time of sowing', from the root of serere 'to sow'.

Components

Climate may include precipitation, temperature, humidity, sunshine, and wind velocity, phenomena such as fog, frost, and hail storms over a long period of time.

Season may include weather conditions, which includes sunshine, rain, cloud cover, winds, hail, snow, sleet, freezing rain, flooding, blizzards, ice storms, thunderstorms, steady rains from a cold front or warm front, excessive heat, heat waves and more.

Determined by

Aggregating weather statistics over periods of 30 years.

The changes in the weather, ecology, hours of daylight.

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Climatology

Meteorology

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One describes meteorological conditions over a long time span - generally at least 30 years, but typically much longer - hundreds or even thousands of years. The other is a most often used as a reference to a very specific unit of time - any 3 month period between a solstice and an equinox (called summer, fall, winter, or spring) - as well as a general description of the typical conditions of weather and sunlight that characterize that time span. Seasons may also be used more generally to describe portions of the year in a specific locality that correspond to a weather pattern that tends to prevail during that time span ("the rainy season", "the dry season" etc.). 

Climate may be considered for limited geographic areas ("a tropical climate"), or may be considered globally. The four seasons are the same regardless of the locality, is spite of of widely varying local conditions, except that they are reversed between the northern and southern hemispheres. When it is winter in Phoenix Arizona (and the temperature is 90 degrees fahrenheit, with sunny skies), it is also winter in Aspen Colorado (with blizzard conditions and freezing temperatures.)
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