Geography 103: Weather
Exercise 3.
An excellent source for weather maps of the US is the web
site weather.unisys.com. At this site you can find surface data, upper
level meteorological data, satellite images, radar data and forecasts for the
Choose the option More information on plots from the surface data page to get details of the symbols used in this plot. Use these pages to answer the questions below.
You may print out this page, or select data sheet here to bring up the one-page data sheet in Word.
a. Draw the symbol for a wind from the SW at 15 knots.
b. Draw the symbol for light rain.
c. Draw the symbol for light snow.
d. Draw the symbol for 50% cloud cover.
e. How would a surface pressure of 986.4 mb be written?
f. What pressure is represented by 015?
g. Draw the symbol for a cold front.
h. Draw the symbol for a warm front.
i. How is a center of low pressure represented?
j. On the radar plot what do green areas show?