On Sat, 31 Oct 2009 10:30:41 -0400, BAR wrote:

Right now in
my area our climate is changing from Summer to Fall and soon it will be
winter. I sure hope somebody figures out how to make it Spring again.

Climate is the long term average of the weather. The soil temperature
ten feet down is the average temperature of a place, totaled over the
last century or so. If you have an average below freeziing you have
permafrost.