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Expert: Donald Rosenfeld - 11/4/2009
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Average daily temperatures for one city, located at 15° south latitude, are 5°C cooler than average daily temperatures for a second city, located at 30° south latitude. What might account for the cooler temperatures in the first city, which lies so near the equator?
Answer
Hi Leslie
Could be the first city is at a higher elevation or near the ocean; the answer probably would be the higher elevation because the temperature falls as you rise in elevation where the ocean temperature could vary its influence by month:
http://www.newton.dep.anl.gov/askasci/wea00/wea00131.htm
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