"The Sun Times Project" final report

Latitude affects temperature. As we get closer to the poles, the temperature decreases and as we get closer to the equator, the temperatures rises. This remains the same all year round. The colder zones on Earth are those that are close to the poles and, the warmer ones, are those that are close to the equator. An interesting example we found was: the data that we received shows that in Buenos Aires (Argentina) and in Edmonton (Canada) the average temperature during May was almost the same. In Buenos Aires it was autumn time and the average temperature was 13º C. In Edmonton it was springtime and the average temperature was 16º C. If we look up these cities on the map we can observe that Argentina (-34,4 latitude) is closer to the equator than Edmonton (53,5 latitude). This explains the data obtained.

Besides, we can also say that latitude affects minutes of light. If we get into account the data gathered during the month of May, we notice that the closer the city gets to the South Pole, the least minutes of light per day it has. The opposite occurs if we go north: the minutes of light increase. This happens because during the month of May, while it is winter in the Southern Hemisphere, it is summer in the Northern Hemisphere. When the seasons change, the minutes of light per the day change too. During the summer, we have more minutes of light per day than during the winter.

Finally, we came to the conclusion that longitude does not affect temperature or minutes of light per day.
The following example explains this better. Buenos Aires (Argentina) and Georgetown have a similar longitude, -58,2 y -58 respectively. Nevertheless, at the moment of our experiment, Buenos Aires had an average temperature of 13º C and 618 minutes of light per day while in Georgetown the values were higher: 32º C and 746 minutes of light per day.higher: 32º C and 746 minutes of light per day.