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You should better understand how to read a weather station model now. We’ve covered measurements and common weather station symbols and explained what they all mean and how they look. Here’s a page full of active station plots.
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Commonly, meteorologists display these observations in something called a station model (check out the example on the right), which is a graphical template showing current weather conditions at a weather station (often located at an airport).
1 WEATHER STATION MODELS 2 WHAT IS A WEATHER STATION MODEL? • A model that uses SYMBOLS that plot a number of WEATHER ELEMENTS in a small space on a weather map. 3 HAND OUT CHEAT SHEET...
Oct 4, 2012 · This lesson instructs students on how to read station models, the symbols used on weather maps to show data (temperature, wind speed and direction, barometeric pressure, etc.) for a given reporting station. It includes a diagram of a station model, an explanation of the data conveyed by the numbers and symbols, and a table of definitions for ...
Station models are helpful symbols that are used on weather maps to display the atmospheric conditions at many locations across the United States. Most major cities will have a station model updated every three hours and displayed on a map by the National Weather Service.
We will, then, only become familiar with a simplified weather station model as shown below (a diagram similar to this one is found in your handout packet). The elements are discussed below. How to read the Station Model: 1) Cloud Cover: The degree to which the circular station marker is filled in indicates percent cloud cover. Our example shows ...
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Weather charts consist of curved lines drawn on a geographical map in such a way as to indicate weather features. These features are best shown by charts of atmospheric pressure, which consist of isobars (lines of equal pressure) drawn around depressions (or lows) and anticyclones (or highs).