Term for the perceptible, short-term state of the atmosphere at a specific location on the earth's surface, which manifests itself as cloud cover, frost, heat, cold, humidity, precipitation(hail, rain, frost, snow, dew), ground and air temperature, sunshine and wind, among other things. The weather can change several times a day.

The map shows the average annual temperature for the period 1961 to 1990 based on the Climatic Research Unit (University of East Anglia). The minimum and maximum daily temperatures were measured.
The weather situation is a condition of a larger area at a certain point in time. The weather is the weather of a certain period of time from several days to a certain season, related to a certain area. The climate is the totality of weather conditions over a long-term period of 30 years. The temperature sum (also heat sum) is the sum of certain temperature values within a defined period of time.
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