Wednesday, July 13, 2011

Climograph


A climograph is a graphical representation of the monthly rainfall and temperature for a given geographic location. The data is usually averaged and then plotted. This graph can give insights to future weather predictions as well as insights to a locations climate. Precipitation is shown by the bar graph and temperature is shown by the line graph. This climograph represents monthly rainfall and temperature averages for Memphis, Tennessee. Rainfall is measured in millimeters and temperature with Celsius. For example in January, there was approximately 150mm of rainfall with an average temperature of 5 degrees Celsius.

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