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Climate and Climate Graphs
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Weather v. Climate? The difference between weather and climate is a measure of time.
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What is weather? There are really a lot of components to weather.
Weather includes: sunshine, raincloud cover, wind, hail, snow, sleet, freezing rain, flooding, blizzards, ice storms, thunderstorms, steady rains excessive heat, heat waves and more.
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What is climate? In short, climate is the description of the long- term pattern of weather in a particular area. Some scientists define climate as the average weather for a particular region and time period, usually taken over 30-years. It's really an average pattern of weather for a particular region.
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Local Example: Vancouver
Weather on May 8, 2018 Sunny Breeze Warm Partly cloudy 19 degrees Vancouver’s climate Raincouver Heavy rainfall in the winter, fall Warm, dry, summers – with heat waves Temperate climate – not too cold, not too hot Coastal /rainforest
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A little more about climate. Bill Nye: https://www. youtube. com/watch
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Geo Skill: Reading and Interpreting climate graphs
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How to construct a climate graph
1. Draw and label the axes (remember you need two names for the y axis – ‘temperature’ and ‘rainfall’ ). 2. Work out the right scale for each axis (look at your highest temperature and rainfall figures). 3. Draw the graph using bars for rainfall and a line for temperature. Remember to plot the temperature points in the middle of the months on the x axis.
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