Climograph - Arizona and Australia

http://ag.arizona.edu/watershedsteward//resources/module/Climate/az-climate_pg3.htm

http://www.uwsp.edu/geo/faculty/ritter/geog101/textbook/climate_systems/tropical_steppe.html

Climographs offer a quick and easy way to analyze temperature and rainfall trends over the course of a year.  Within these graphs, the temperature will always be following some sort of sinusoidal curve, but the rainfall can take on different modal characteristics.  

I included two maps for this because I wanted to point out an interesting differences.  The precipitation in the Arizona climograph has a bimodal regime while the precipitation in Australia does not.  Also, if you compare the temperature curves for these two places you will notice that they are 180 degrees out of phase.  This can be attributed to the fact that they are in different hemispheres, and therefore the seasons are different.  Arizona sees its peak in temperature in July while Australia sees its peak in temperature around January.