Climate is the long-term weather pattern in an area, typically averaged over 30 years.^[1][2] More rigorously, it is the mean and variability of meteorological variables over a time spanning from months to millions of years.^[1] Some of the meteorological variables that are commonly measured are temperature, humidity, atmospheric pressure, wind, and precipitation. In a broader sense, climate is the state of the components of the climate system, including the atmosphere, the hydrosphere, the cryosphere, the lithosphere and the biosphere and the interactions between them.^[1] The climate of a location is affected by its latitude/longitude, terrain, altitude, and nearby water bodies and their currents.