We enjoyed doing this research and noticed that our hours of daylight are getting shorter as winter approaches. Our temperatures vary as we are on the coast with the Indian Ocean to the east of us. Our average temperature is normally higher for this time of the year, but we had a cold spell during the week of the project! Our temperature for the first day was 26 which dropped to 20 the next day! Our temperatures are however generally getting cooler and there is very little humidity now as our weather changes. (Durban is very humid in Summer!)

By comparing our data with others, we learned that places further away from the equator were cooler than places closer to the equator.

We also learned that at this time of the year, places further north get more sunlight.

It was interesting to compare places on the same line of latitude and see how their temperatures differed - or were very similar.

E-mail: sausmeie@dgc.kzn.school.za