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Question
Given below is the climatic data of a station. Study the table and answer the questions that follow:
| Month | Jan. | Feb. | Mar. | Apr. | May | June | July | Aug. | Sep. | Oct. | Nov. | Dec. |
| Temperature °C | 24.5 | 25.7 | 27.7 | 20-4 | 30.0 | 32.5 | 31.0 | 30.2 | 29.8 | 28.0 | 25.9 | 24.7 |
| Rainfall cm | 4.6 | 1.3 | 1.3 | 1.8 | 3.8 | 4.5 | 8.7 | 11.3 | 11.9 | 30.6 | 35.0 | 13.9 |
- Calculate the annual rainfall experienced by the station.
- What is the annual range of temperature?
- Name the wettest month.
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Solution
- Annual rainfall experienced by the station is 128.7 cm.
- The annual range of temperature = 32.5 max. temp. − 20.4 min. temp.
= 12.1 ° C. - The wettest month is November with the highest rainfall 35.0 cm.
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