Tampa rains the most in the summer months, June to September, while Portland rains the least during these same months, as we can see in the bar graphs and line graphs. The reason for this is probably geographical because Tampa is on the Atlantic coast and is characterized by high humidity causing rainy summers. Portland, on the West coast and has low humidity and rainy winters. In the line graph we can see that Tampa rains the most during its hotter months and Portland rains the most during its cold months which are winter for them. Portland is cold, compared to Tampa, but they both follow the same patterns of temperature spread through the months as illustrated by the line graph. Both begin cold and bet increasingly warm until summer, then they decrease again back into December. The line graphs are generally the most helpful to determine each cities "typical" climate. *
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5. The Average rainfall in Tampa is roughly 2.0 inches in five of the months in the year. In Portland, the average rainfall is roughly 2.0 inches in four of the months. I used the dot plot to predict these answers because it’s the easiest to get the information from, since it plots the frequency; I simply look at the 2.0 inch value and count the number of dots for the that amount.
6. Tampa and Portland’s climates vary significantly in rainfall through the seasons, temperature through the seasons, and the amount of variation in rainfall and temperature. Their maximum rainfalls are each in different seasons, Tampa rains in the summer because it is so humid there, and Portland rains the most in winter because it is cold and not humid. This is easy to see in the line graphs as Tampa’s rainfall reaches its peak in summer (maximum in August) and declines in the surrounding months. Portland is the opposite in summer, reaching its lowest amount of rainfall and then peaking in the first and last months of the year, when winter is. Their average temperatures visibly vary in the dot plot: Tampa’s lowest temperature is 70 degrees and it spends five months in the 85-90 degree range, while Portland’s maximum is 80 degrees and the rest of the data is fairly spread with the most temperatures in the 45-60 degree range. The bar graphs show Portland’s rainfall as a parabola and Tampa is the inverted version of it, showing their opposite seasonal rainfall distribution. The temperature bar graphs show both with similar shape but one has the larger numbers. Overall, Tampa and Portland both rain a lot, but in different parts of the year, and Portland is colder than Tampa.
* What important climate information is missing from the data? Why don't these graphs tell the whole story about what the climate is really like? * Using the graphs and tables, tell which city you'd rather live in. Use information from at least two graphs to support your answer.
Portland is cold, compared to Tampa, but they both follow the same patterns of temperature spread through the months as illustrated by the line graph. Both begin cold and bet increasingly warm until summer, then they decrease again back into December. The line graphs are generally the most helpful to determine each cities "typical" climate.
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The most important thing missing is the outliers, they give us the averages but none of the extreme exceptions. It would be helpful to se
5. The Average rainfall in Tampa is roughly 2.0 inches in five of the months in the year. In Portland, the average rainfall is roughly 2.0 inches in four of the months. I used the dot plot to predict these answers because it’s the easiest to get the information from, since it plots the frequency; I simply look at the 2.0 inch value and count the number of dots for the that amount.
6. Tampa and Portland’s climates vary significantly in rainfall through the seasons, temperature through the seasons, and the amount of variation in rainfall and temperature. Their maximum rainfalls are each in different seasons, Tampa rains in the summer because it is so humid there, and Portland rains the most in winter because it is cold and not humid. This is easy to see in the line graphs as Tampa’s rainfall reaches its peak in summer (maximum in August) and declines in the surrounding months. Portland is the opposite in summer, reaching its lowest amount of rainfall and then peaking in the first and last months of the year, when winter is. Their average temperatures visibly vary in the dot plot: Tampa’s lowest temperature is 70 degrees and it spends five months in the 85-90 degree range, while Portland’s maximum is 80 degrees and the rest of the data is fairly spread with the most temperatures in the 45-60 degree range. The bar graphs show Portland’s rainfall as a parabola and Tampa is the inverted version of it, showing their opposite seasonal rainfall distribution. The temperature bar graphs show both with similar shape but one has the larger numbers. Overall, Tampa and Portland both rain a lot, but in different parts of the year, and Portland is colder than Tampa.
* What important climate information is missing from the data? Why don't these graphs tell the whole story about what the climate is really like?
* Using the graphs and tables, tell which city you'd rather live in. Use information from at least two graphs to support your answer.
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