Band 6+: The line graph below shows the average high and low temperatures in Glasgow, Scotland, over the course of a year, while the table provides information on the average monthly rainfall and sunshine hours. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

The line graph and table illustrate average monthly temperature, precipitation and sunshine in Glasgow, Scotland.

Overall, avergae highest and lowest temperatures can be seen in Summer, especially in July, however highest precipitation rates can be spotted in Autumn, October. In addition, sunshine raised the most in May.

As for the temperature rates, the highest average year temperature began with 6 degrees, with a steady increase until July, where average highest temperature rates peaked with hefty 20 degrees, while then, this rates dropped three times, until the December and levelled off at 6 degrees. However, the lowest average temperature was below 2.5 degrees in January, although then the weather warmed and rised to 11 degrees. But then, the emperature decreased and average lowest temperature rate in December was below 2.5 degrees.

Precipitation, in the meantime, was 107mm in January, then decreased below 80mm in the next few months, however from then onwards, in Autumn precipitation rates began to increase reaching 97mm, 109mm and peaking at 124mm in August, September and October respectively. Moreover, in the following years, even though rates of the precipitation has fallen, this number did not drop below 100mm.

As far as sunshine was concerned, January started with cold 1.3 hours/day. But then, this number began to rise and quadrupled in May with 5.6 hours/day. In the following months, the steady decrease, and numbers dropped below 2hours/day and levelled off at 1.1hours/day in December.