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Climate is what we observe about weather conditions
over a long period of time.
Did you know ?
Mauritius is a tropical island and has only two seasons: summer and winter.
Other countries located far from the tropics, for example in Europe, have four seasons:
summer, autumn, winter and spring. Can you name two countries having four seasons?
In summer temperature is higher whereas in winter temperature is lower.
Study Figure 3 which shows temperature graphs for Port Louis, Vacoas
and Plaine Corail
Summer Autumn Winter Spring
Pic. 5 THE FOUR SEASONS
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1.5 CLIMATE
FIG. 3 TEMPERATURE GRAPHS FOR PORT LOUIS, VACOAS & PLAINE CORAIL
A temperature graph is a line graph which shows the average
temperature at a place for each month.