The climate of any place is the kind of weather. It usually has over a long period of time. The kind of homes we live in, the clothes we wear, even the foods we eat depend on the climate of the place where we live. Climate is complicated; it is affected by many things. If you live near one of the poles, you live in a cold climate, for you do not get as much direct sunshine as you would get farther from the poles. If you live near the equator, you live in a warm or very hot climate, for this is the region where the sun shines almost straight down.How much rain or snow falls makes a great difference to the climate. You may live in a hot, dry land, where little rain falls. This will be a desert. Its climate is quite different from that of a rain forest, which may be the same distance from the equator but rain falls almost every day. The amount of rain that falls or snow in a cold land depends upon the winds, upon the nearby mountains, and upon the currents in nearby seas. Rainfall depends on many different things.