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Weather is the feeling of the atmosphere at a particular moment and place. It is the heat pressing on your skin at noon, the sudden coolness after a storm, the wind that rattles windows at night, or the heavy air that settles over a city before rain. Weather happens now. It changes by the hour and by the day. Climate, by contrast, is the long story told by many years of weather, the pattern that emerges after seasons repeat again and again. People often speak of weather as if