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That's a cool family project! However, assuming that you're only collecting data where e.g. you live, I think you're collecting weather data, not climate data.
by lutorm 7y ago
That's a cool family project! However, assuming that you're only collecting data where e.g. you live, I think you're collecting weather data, not climate data. Climate refers to global averages.
This may sound like a nitpick but it's important to remember that no data from a single location can say much of anything about what the global climate is doing. It's quite possible for some places to get colder even if the climate grows warmer.
- epylar 7y agoClimate is defined as long term averages of weather, so a single location can have a climate that's different from another location.
- CapitalistCartr 7y agoWikipedia: " . . . long-term averages of weather are called "climate".[1][2]" "The climate of a location is affected by its latitude, terrain, and altitude, as well as nearby water bodies and their currents."
- Retric 7y agoNo, a tropical rainforest and the South Pole have very different weather patterns. Those trends which generally includes seasonal variations are called Climate. In a broader sense, the "climate" of a region is the general state of the climate system at that location. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate