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Given below are the Climatic graphs of three stations. Which one of the given graphs depicts the climatic data of Jodhpur? Give three reasons with reference to (i) temperature and its range, (ii) amount of rainfall and (iii) rainfall regime in support of your answer in selecting the graph.

Answer

(i) Graph ‘C’ depicts the climatic data of Jodhpur. Reasons:
(i) Jodhpur is located in the desert area of western Rajasthan. The graph shows that during summer months temperature is very high. It is more than 40°C in the month of April and May. During winter season the temperature goes down to 23°C. Hence the annual range of temperature is very high (43-23) = 20°C.


(ii) The rainfall is very low. It is about 100 mm in the month of August.


(iii) Whatever rainfall Jodhpur gets, is in the months of July and August. October to May are dry months.

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