Climate Control Factors

• Climate:
– An area’s long-term weather patterns
– Look at average temperature and precipitation oer time

• Why might one place have cold, snowy winters,

while it rarely snows at another place only a
hundred miles away?
• Factors that affect climate:

– Latitude

– Enearby Water

– Ocean Currents

– Topography

– Vegetation

– Prevailing Winds
How to read the graphs
Flagstaff vs. Phoenix
North Bend vs. Boston
Dallas vs. Fargo
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