Interpret a climograph. 5.3.8

Links verified 9/17/2014

1. Building Climographs in Microsoft Excel - a tutorial on how to create your own climograph
2. Climographs of Selected U.S. Cities - A climograph plots monthly average temperature and precipitation for some location. It provides a quick way of characterizing the climate of a particular place. To view a climograph for one of the U.S. cities listed, click on the city name or the corresponding dot on the map. [This expired link is available through the Wayback Machine Internet Archive. If the page doesn't load quickly click on Impatient? at the bottom right of the page.]
3. Climate Information - a source of raw data that your students might use to make their own climograph
4. The Gang of Fourteen - a game for learning about world climates - Students will try to "round up" a gang of spies located in 14 cities around the world.
5. How to Read a Climograph - A climograph [climate-graph] is what scientists create to show a particular location's average temperature and precipitation during the year.
6. Interactive Climate Map - Move your cursor over a rectangle to see a climograph. Click on the rectangle to view information about the climate at that location
7. U.S. Climate at a Glance - from the National Climatic Data Center in Asheville, North Carolina
8. United States Climate Page
9. World Climate - What the weather is normally like for tens of thousands of places worldwide! WorldClimate.com contains over 85,000 records of world climate data (historical weather averages).

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