老王站在阳台上， thumbing through a weather forecast app on his phone. He sighed, "Summer's here again, and the air feels thick. I wonder what 'climate' really is."

His neighbor, Mrs. Lee, overheard and walked over. "Hey, why are you thinking about climate? Did you have a bad day?" she asked, knocking on the door.

"Hey, Mrs. Lee! Nah, it's just that the weather's been so weird lately," said Wang. "One day it's sunny, and the next, it's pouring. I'm trying to understand what climate is all about."

Mrs. Lee smiled and sat down. "Climate is like the average weather over a long time. It tells us what to expect in a place. For instance, here in Taiwan, we have a tropical climate, so it's hot and rainy most of the year."

Wang nodded, his eyes lighting up. "That makes sense. But how is climate different from weather?"

Mrs. Lee leaned forward, her voice filled with enthusiasm. "Weather is what you see outside your window today—sunny, rainy, windy. Climate is the big picture over decades or centuries. It's the patterns we can rely on."