How To Read Weather Map

How to read weather map

I hope you ve learned quite a bit about how to read a weather map. As cold dense air moves through it wedges underneath the warmer air ahead of it. A cold front is the boundary between warm air and relatively cooler air.

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Read the station models at each point of observation.

On the weather map it appears as a blue line with small blue triangles originally chosen because they look like little icicles. I ve had a lifelong interest in the weather spanning more than 30 years culminating with the pursuit of a. A station plot always shows the current temperature on the top left dew point on the bottom left and air pressure on the top right.

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To tie this all together i recommend you watch the following video produced by the weather channel s ryan davidson to help you understand some of the concepts better. On a weather map a warm front is usually drawn using a solid red line with half circles pointing in the direction of the cold air that will be replaced. The warm front is marked on the map with red line with red semicircles cuss pointing the direction the front is moving.

A front marks the boundary between two air masses and appears on the weather map as a line with triangles or semicircles attached.

A warm front can initially bring some rain followed by clear skies and warm temperatures.
A cold front is the leading edge of a invading colder air mass and is marked by a line with triangles pointing to where it is moving.
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Temperature is generally recorded in celsius degrees and rainfall is recorded in millimeters.

If your weather map has station models each one will plot the temperature dew point wind sea level pressure pressure tendency and ongoing weather with a series of symbols.

Warm fronts usually move from southwest to northeast. When the warm front approaches look for rise in the temperatures and moisture. I m the lead contributor here at weather station advisor.

The units for temperature and dew point depend on the source.

Warm front is a boundary where a warm air is replacing a cold air.
One of the first coded pieces of data you might notice on a weather map is a 4 digit number followed by the letters z or utc usually found at the map s top or bottom corner this string of numbers and letters is a timestamp.
It tells you when the weather map was created and also the time when the weather data in the map is valid.