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Temperature (°F) Precipitation (in) Month 80° 60° 20° 40° 12” 9” 3” 0” 6” J F M A J J S O N D A M Portland, OR For instructions on how to make your own climograph for your town, go to this National Geographic website: http://www.nationalgeographic.com/xpeditions/lessons/15/g912/creatingclimograph.pdf A climograph is a graph showing the annual temperature and rainfall of a particular geographic location such as a city. On the graph, the horizontal axis shows the months of the year, one vertical axis shows the mean monthly temperature and the second vertical axis shows the mean monthly precip- itation. Temperature is shown by the line with green diamond symbols and precipitation is shown by the bars. Displaying Climate Data: Climographs 32

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Temperature (°F) Precipitation (in)

Month

80°

60°

20°

40°

12”

9”

3”

0”

6”

J F M A J J S O N DAM

Portland, OR

For instructions on how to make your own climograph for your town, go to this National Geographic website:http://www.nationalgeographic.com/xpeditions/lessons/15/g912/creatingclimograph.pdf

A climograph is a graph showing the annual temperature and rainfall of a particular geographic location such as a city. On the graph, the horizontal axis shows the months of the year, one vertical axis shows the mean monthly temperature and the second vertical axis shows the mean monthly precip-itation. Temperature is shown by the line with green diamond symbols and precipitation is shown by the bars.

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