FACTORS THAT
AFFECT CLIMATE
METEOROLOGIST
• Someone who study and report on weather
and climate, keep records of temperature,
precipitation.
FACTORS THAT AFFECT
CLIMATE
1. LATITUDE
2. ALTITUDE
3. LAND MASSES AND BODIES OF
WATER
4. PRECIPITATION
5. AIR MOVEMENT
1. LATITUDE
• Determines how far a place is from a
place is from the equator. It also
determines the amount of solar energy
that a region receives and prevailing
wind patterns.
1. The angle which the rays of the
sun strike that region.
2. The number of hours of daylight.
2. ALTITUDE
• The height of the place above sea level.
1. The higher the altitude of a given
place, the lower is its average
temperature.
2. Air is thinner in high places than at
sea level.
3. LAND MASSES &
BODIES OF WATER
• The different heating and cooling
properties of land and water, bodies
of water tend to be cooler than land
during summer and warmer than
land during winter.
LAND AND WATER ABSORB AND
RELEASE HEAT AT DIFFERENT RATES
LAND MASSES & BODIES
OF WATER
• The presence of bodies of water tends
to moderate the climate nearby land
masses.
• Inland places tend to have hot
summers and cold winters.
• Places near bodies of water tend to
have cool summers and mild winters.
4. PRECIPITATION
• Any moisture that falls from the air
to the Erath’s surface.
• Liquid: drizzle and rain
• Solid: snow, sleet and hail
• Regions in the equator are warm all
year long.
5. AIR MOVEMENT
• The unequal heating of the earth’s
surface causes air to move. When
air is heated, it rises. Cool air
gradually becomes warm and rises.
So, a steady flow of rising warm air
and falling cool air takes place.
5. AIR MOVEMENT
• The spinning of the earth causes
moving air to change direction
which causes winds in the northern
half of the earth to flow to the right
and causes winds in the southern
half of the earth to fall to the left.
PHILIPPINE
CLIMATE
1.) TYPE I-Two
pronounced season
(dry & wet)
• Rainy season: June-September
caused by southwest monsoon.
• Ilocos region, Central Luzon, Metro
Manila, Region IV-A and , Southern
part of Antique and Iloilo, Palawan.
2.) TYPE II-No dry season
(very pronounced maximum rain
period)
• Maximum rainfall: DecemberJanuary
• Quezon province, Bicol region,
Samar, Leyte, Surigao del Sur,
Agusan del Norte, Misamis
Occidental, Polio Island
3.) TYPE III-No maximum rain period
(short dry season: 3 months only)
• Northesthern part of Ilocos,
Cagayan, Mountain Province,
Isabela, Aklan,Basilan, Bukidnon,
Cotabato, Eastern Maguindanao
4.) TYPE IV-Evenly distributed
rainfall throughout the year.
• Kalinga-Apayao, Western Samar,
Northern pat of Leyte and Cebu,
Northeastern part of Zamboanga,
Lanao del Norte, Davao Oriental
and Agusan del Sur
4.) TYPE IV-Evenly distributed
rainfall throughout the year.
• About 27% of the average annual
rainfall in the Philippines is
attributed to the occurrence of
tropical cyclones from JUNEDECEMBER which affects the
Climate in our country.