Max Temperature

The maximal temperature of each city was recorded in Fahrenheit and compared to the city's latitude. Results are found in the scatter plot above.

The trend in the scatter plot is cities close to the equator, have moderate temperatures (~75F). As the latitude increases in the north, temperatures decrease and are colder (~25F). The cities around the equator are the warmest. The temperatures south of the equator are warmer than that of the equator. The reason for this seemingly odd behavior is due to axial tilt of the earth. Currently, the northern hemisphere of the earth is tilted away from the sun while the southern hemisphere is tilted towards the sun. Therefore, the northern hemisphere is experiencing colder temperatures (ie: winter), and the southern hemisphere is experiencing warmer temperatures (ie: summer).