The Florida Climate Center serves as the primary resource for climate data, information, and services in the state of Florida.

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The Florida Climate Center achieves its mission by providing climate monitoring, research, and expertise to be applied by the people, institutions, and businesses of Florida and the surrounding region.

We provide direct service by fulfilling requests for climate and weather data and information in a variety of formats.

We perform research that advances the understanding of the climate variability and changes of Florida and the surrounding region.

We provide outreach in presentations and at events aimed at a variety of groups, interests, and ages.

Move your mouse pointer across the parallel "lines of energy". Click on one of these zones to temporarily "lock" it, and then select a different month (season) in the menu at the bottom.

In each zone in the figure, the total amount of light coming from the sun is the same, but the light is always less intense when it has spread over a larger area on the Earth. Pick an area on the Earth, and change the season - how does the concentration of the sun's rays change?

Select month (season): Choose map: Americas Europe/Africa Asia/Australia

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This applet is Copyright © 2011 by the American Meteorological Society. This applet was developed by Ira Geer (AMS), Robert Weinbeck (AMS), and Tom Whittaker (University of Wisconsin-Madison).

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These games were provided by: The Cooperative Institute for Meteorological and Satellite Studies (CIMSS) and Space Science and Engineering Center (SSEC) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. (http://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/education)