The bar chart below shows the average monthly maximum temperatures for three Australian cities in the year 2016. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

The bar chart gives information on the average monthly maximum temperatures recorded in Melbourne, Darwin, and Perth from January to December 2016.

Overall

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, Darwin recorded the highest temperatures,

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Melbourne had the lowest throughout the year.

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the graph, in Darwin, the temperature was around 31.8

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Celsius in January,

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dropped slightly to 30.6 in both June and July, which were the coolest months, before rising again to 32.6 in December. As for Melbourne, the temperature was 25.8

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in January and clearly decreased by almost 12

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in July. After that, it steadily rose again to 24.1 in December.

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, in Perth, the temperature started at 28.1

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in the first month and showed a noticeable fluctuation during the year. It declined to 18.8

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in July and

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rose to 26.3

at the end

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of the year.