Yeah, I guess because averages over years are showing these increases and extreme events, etc. His tweet isn't really careless with that conflation of weather and climate, but I have seen a number of much more alarmist/sensationalist articles and headlines which are. It just seems like something people need to be very conscious of - as I said "devil's advocate".
Maybe a season is the reasonable minimum for climate.
The heat dome is weather and he's using one extreme weather phenomenon to make a point about this summer (climate). From your link:
In most places, weather can change from minute-to-minute, hour-to-hour, day-to-day, and season-to-season. Climate, however, is the average of weather over time and space. An easy way to remember the difference is that climate is what you expect, like a very hot summer, and weather is what you get, like a hot day with pop-up thunderstorms.
Enough (short-term) extreme weather events will make the longer-term (climate) more extreme as well since the latter is based on averages over time.
Yeah, I guess because averages over years are showing these increases and extreme events, etc. His tweet isn't really careless with that conflation of weather and climate, but I have seen a number of much more alarmist/sensationalist articles and headlines which are. It just seems like something people need to be very conscious of - as I said "devil's advocate".
The heat dome is weather and he's using one extreme weather phenomenon to make a point about this summer (climate). From your link:
In most places, weather can change from minute-to-minute, hour-to-hour, day-to-day, and season-to-season. Climate, however, is the average of weather over time and space. An easy way to remember the difference is that climate is what you expect, like a very hot summer, and weather is what you get, like a hot day with pop-up thunderstorms.
Enough (short-term) extreme weather events will make the longer-term (climate) more extreme as well since the latter is based on averages over time.
Edit: He's now in a better position to judge with two-thirds of the summer gone/done.
