1. Climate and Climate Graphs

2. Weather v. Climate?
The difference between weather and climate is a measure of time.

3. 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.

4. 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.

5. 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

6. A little more about climate. Bill Nye: https://www. youtube. com/watch

7. Geo Skill: Reading and Interpreting climate graphs

8. 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.