Recording the Weather
Geography: KS3, topic 5.1.12
Recording the Weather
Meteorologists can draw graphs to show average weather using the weather records of a particular location.
A weather graph
- Meteorologists use the weather's records to draw graphs of the average weather for a particular location.
- The most common graph shows temperature and precipitation over a year.
The graph
- The temperature is shown as a continuous line graph using the left-hand vertical scale.
- The precipitation is shown as a bar graph using the right-hand vertical scale.
- The months of the year are on the horizontal axis.
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What do we call this type of graph?
What do we find on the horizontal axis of weather graphs?