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Save the Golden Ring-Tailed Lemur Foundation

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Madagascar Weather Our PowerPoint on Antananarivo, Madagascar

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The Experts by: Lizzee Hansen- topographer Morgan Dorchak- meteorologist Corbin Matthews- climatologist Amber Guzman- historian

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By: Amber Guzman By: Amber Guzman The history of Madagascar weather!

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Madagascar is known for its hot past the highest recorded temp. of Madagascar is 97 degrees it was recorded in February of 1997.the lowest was in January of 1932 it was 55 degrees.

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Madagascar has two seasons- a hot/ rainy season in November through April and a cooler/ dry season in May through October. On febuary2-4 1994 cyclone Geralda came to shore it killed 70 and ruined so many homes it left 500,000 people homeless. It was the worst cyclone since 1927.

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Topography By Lizzee Hansen The Landforms and water.

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Antananarivo The exciting features of Antananarivo include: Rivers, valleys, forests, and other things.

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Bamboo Forest Here is a forest That obviously has a lot of bamboo. I think that this area has a lot of rain and sunlight, otherwise, it would not have that thick of bamboo.

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Other Stuff: The major rivers in Madagascar are: Mangoro Maningory Mananaro Ivondro Betsiboka And Onilahy. The elevation of the northern side plateau is 9,450 feet, which is the highest peak of elevation in Madagascar. The total area of Madagascar is 587,040 square Kilometers, making it the 3 rd largest island in the world.

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Meteorology By: Morgan Dorchak

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Meteorology is the study of current weather and current weather events. The people who study weather (meteorologists) will track that current weather and events and report it in a forecast. What is Meteorology?

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To predict the weather, meteorologists will study past forecasts and calculate the averages. They will also look at clouds to see what type they clouds are and what directions the clouds are going in to see if there will be storms and if an area has high or low pressure. Predicting the weather

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Climatology: Corbin Matthews

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What Is Climatology? What a climatologist does is find the lows, highs and averages of weather in the area they are researching. Also what climate is, is the highs, lows, and averages for a period of years. The climate changes about every 30 years.

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Averages Jan61.981.9270.418 Feb62.478.6256.917 Mar61.377.7183.117 Apr59.476.650.59 May55.273.220.16 Jun51.469.67.26 Jul50.568.411.18 Aug50.569.1159 Sep52.4.373.49.54 Oct56.177.466.68 Nov59.278.8170.814 Dec61.378.4304.120 monthDaily min Daily max Mean rainfall Mean rain days

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