Cold Front On Weather Map
We ll try to make a little more sense of this data and eventually locate a cold front.
Cold front on weather map. Cold fronts are often coloured blue. That cold front to our nw will just lay out west to east thru northern ny keeping us in the warm humid air flow from the s sw as the high pressure slowly moves east. A cold front can bring cold temperatures torrential rains and high wind speeds. Cold fronts typically move from northwest to southeast.
On a weather map cold fronts are shown as curved blue lines with triangles pointing in the direction that the front is moving. On coloured weather maps a cold front is. Second pic is what our map should look like come saturday morning. The presence of a cold front means that cold.
The weather map symbol for a cold front is a blue curved line with blue triangles. Step 1 draw in some isobars and ocate the low pressure center in some. Study this example carefully because you will have an opportunity to do a surface weather map analysis of your own and will be able to earn some 1s1p points or extra credit points. Wintry conditions to blanket europe as brutal cold front takes hold bbc weather has forecast wintry conditions in europe as temperatures plunge in scandinavia bringing hill.
Locating a cold front on a weather map in the next figure we started with some weather data plotted on a surface map using the station model notation. Top stories video slideshows climate news. Severe alerts safety preparedness hurricane central. A cold front is symbolised on a weather map as a line with triangles.
Weather in motion radar maps classic weather maps regional satellite. On a weather map a cold front is usually drawn using a solid blue line with triangles pointing in the direction of the warm air that will be replaced. It isn t uncommon for air temperatures to drop 10 degrees fahrenheit or more within an hour of a cold frontal passage. The triangles point in the direction the cold air is moving.