Weather

General Information

-High Pressure:

Clear Skies

Light Winds

Settled Weather

Isobars are quite far apart

Travel clockwise in Northern Hemisphere

-Low Pressure:

Strong Winds

Heavy Rains

Unsettled Weather

Isobars are close together

Travel counter clockwise in southern Hemisphere

-Cold Front: Blue Line with triangle on it

-Warm Front: Red Line with half circles on it

-Occludded Front: Purple Lines with triangles & half circles on it Occurs when a cold front catches up to see warm front Clouds & Rainfall

 -Weakening Warm front: Red half circles & triangles separated by an X A front that is starting to dissipate Cloud & Rainfall start to disappear

-Trough: Thick black line Increasing cloud cover & increase chance of rain

A long area of low surface pressure

-Average Sea Level pressure is 1013 MB.

Below 1013 is low pressure & above is high pressure