ABOUT INFOGRAPHICS An infographic is a picture that gives you information Infographics can be graphs charts maps or other sorts of pictures The infographics in this book are about weather Infographics make information easier to understand We see infographics all over the place every day They appear in books in newspapers on television on web sites on posters and in advertisements
Weather for the week Here is an example of a weather infographic It shows what the weather might be like for the next week in a particular place Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri 73°F 66°F 70°F 68°F 64°F
WHAT IS WEATHER Weather can be sunny or cloudy wet or dry warm or cold or windy or calm It can also be a mixture of lots of these things We use different symbols to show different types of weather cloudy partly sunny showers Weather sunny rain hail temperature wind snow
World record weather Some places in the world are very hot or very cold Some are very wet and some are very dry Some are very windy This map shows some world record weather around the world Sunniest place on Earth Yuma Arizona 11 4 hours of sunshine per day on average Hottest place on Earth Death Valley California 134 1°F highest Wettest place on Earth Mawsynram India 467 inches of rain per year Driest place on Earth Arica Chile 0 03 inches of rain per year Coldest place on Earth Vostock Antarctica 128 6°F lowest Windiest place on Earth George V Coast Antarctica 200 miles per hour
