Ha. Ha. Just a joke. We know the difference between weather and climate.

KQED reports from the American Geophysical Union meeting in SF:

(NASA) Scientists studying urban heat islands in 42 cities in the Northeastern U.S. have found that the greatest temperature differences between urban areas and the surrounding environment are in places you might not expect.

Cities located in forest environments have higher heat island effects than those in grasslands or deserts. The bigger the city, the greater the heat island effect. And the more densely-populated cities are worse off than the sprawling ones in this respect.

Also on the topic of weather, The Globe reports on the area’s amateur meteorologists:

NORTH CONWAY, N.H. — Armed with the gauges, funnels, and rulers that are the gadgets of their trade, a volunteer legion of self-described "weather geeks’’ rises early, peers at the sky, and eagerly awaits the worst of another New England winter.

The elements are their element; and the National Weather Service is the beneficiary of the snow measurements they take every time a new batch of flakes falls. Sometimes, that is once a week. Other times, it is six times a day.

https://blogs.kqed.org/climatewatch/2010/12/14/antidote-for-urban-heat-more-trees/