How to draw a climate graph
Use the guidance in the video to draw your own climate graph for Jakarta. Remember:
- Plan your scale carefully before you start; make sure you leave room for annotations. There are always annotations.
- Use a ruler and sharp pencil to draw the axes and make sure they are clearly labelled (include units)
- Plot precipitation as a bar graph. Use a pencil. Add blue.
- Plot temperature using small neat x's. Position the x in the middle of the month. Use a pencil. Join in red.
Jakarta Climate Data
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How to annotate and analyse a climate graph
Planning is the secret to effective annotation. There is a lot to add so:
You should aim to annotate most of the elements listed below. Remember to use DATA to support what you say (ie state the temperature or precipitation values and name the month(s))!
- Take it slow and think before you write.
- Work out where annotations will fit best before adding them.
You should aim to annotate most of the elements listed below. Remember to use DATA to support what you say (ie state the temperature or precipitation values and name the month(s))!
- Maximum temperature (the month with the highest average temperature)
- Minimum temperature
- Temperature range (the difference between the warmest and coldest months)
- Maximum rainfall
- Minimum rainfall
- Seasons - look carefully at your graph and try to identify seasons. There might be a hot season and a cold season; a wet season and a dry season; spring, summer, autumn, winter. Identify when they are and describe them.
- Anomalies - are there any figures which do not seem to fit the overall pattern?
Comparing climate graphs
Climate data for New York
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