Here’s a little analogy to consider, in distinguishing climate and weather. When I set off on my daily commute, I have to go through a couple of dozen traffic lights. I have no way of knowing if any given one will be red, yellow, or green when I come up to it. There’s no way of predicting what the next light will be. But, if I were to keep a tally of what the lights were over time, patterns would emerge. If everyone who traveled the same route kept track of the lights over a period of time, then even clearer patterns would emerge. So it is with weather and climate. A lot of random particulars add up to a coherent whole.