How to use "clima"?

[Christoferus]

I stumbled across two words that both mean weather: "tiempo" and "clima". I automatically assumed that tiempo meant localized weather, whereas clima meant climate, or a general regional weather. However, I saw on a website that you could say "¿Cómo está el clima hoy?" which I would assume literally means "How is the climate today?" I would never say this in English, because it's not like the climate "changes" everyday. I would say "How is the weather today?" which in Spanish would translated as "¿Cómo está el tiempo hoy?", wouldn't it?

Is that really what you could ask to ask what the weather was? Does "clima" not mean "climate" like we use it in English? And would it also be okay to ask "¿Cómo está el tiempo hoy?"

Other examples of "tiempo" and "clima" used in context would be much appreciated!