This is a photo I took in Louisiana over spring break. This is a perfect example of cirrocumulus clouds, or a mackerel sky.
This is a photo I took flying from Louisiana to Dallas. This was the rising air associated with a cumulonimbus cloud. The air is rising rapidly, actually bulging up through the tropopause.
The two graphs above show the average temperature during the month of March for each year since 1895. There is a gray line that shows the average from 1895-2000 so there is a context to compare each year's temperature. The blue lines show the trend of March temperatures for the entire span. Both the contiguous US and the Wisconsin graphs show that the March temperatures are higher as time passes.
Above is the same type of graph as the temperature graphs, except this graph shows the amount of precipitation for the month of March. The precipitation numbers seem to vary just as much as the temperatures. There also does not seem to be any correlation between temperature and precipitation for the most part. The blue trend line does show a slight overall increase since 1895 though, so maybe temperature and precipitation are linked.
Above are temperature and precipitation graphs for the cities of Madison and Milwaukee. The x-axis shows the month of the year, while the y-axis shows either temperature (F) or precipitation (inches). Both cities have very similar temperature graphs which makes perfect sense due to their being close geographically. The precipitation graphs are not quite as similar, but both show drier winter months than spring and summer months.
The six images above are climographs for six cities throughout Wisconsin and in Minneapolis. The climographs show the average temperature (blue bars) and average precipitation (red line) for each month of the year. All of the climographs are relatively quite similar in shape, in that both the temp and precip looking like bell curves with lower values in the winter and higher values in the summer. Most of the values are very similar as well between the graphs due to the cities being fairly close to one another. There does seem to be an obvious link between temperature and precipitation. Both values follow the same general curve, suggesting there could be a correlation between the two.
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