WEATHER CHARTS

SYNOPTIC CHARTS

JOC(C) CLASS 26/20

CAPT M M SAID

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 LESSON OBJECTIVE
• BY THE END OF THE LESSON, THE STUDENT
SHOULD BE ABLE TO CORRECTLY DEFINE A
WEATHER CHART, ITS FEATURES AND
DEMONSTRATE GOOD UNDERSTANDING AND
INTERPRETATION OF SYNOPTIC CHARTS.

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 WEATHER CHARTS
• Everybody is familiar with the simplified weather maps
that appears in the daily newspapers around the nation and
is commented upon, with varying degrees of success,
during the daily News sessions.
• These maps are more correctly called Synoptic Surface
Weather Charts
• The word synoptic is derived from the word synopsis,
meaning a summary or outline. Synoptic is separately
defined as ‘having the same view point’ or, in the weather
sense, ‘a weather analysis at a given moment in time’.

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 VIDEOS
• SUMMARY OF SYNOPTIC CHARTS
• READING WEATHER CHARTS

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 THE STATION MODEL
• To conserve time and space and to provide a chart
which is independent of language barriers, weather
reports are plotted on synoptic charts with a system
of figures and symbols.
• The specific system used is called a station model.
• It is a circle plotted on the geographical location of
the report and all the relevant information is noted at
set points around that circle.

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 THE STATION MODEL CODES cont…
• PPP - Barometric pressure e.g:
(thousands omitted e.g 1004.2=042,
998.2=982)
280 040
• TTT - Air temperature
• N - Cloud type Ns

• - Wind direction Wind direction N.E

Wind speed 25 knts
• - Wind speed Barometer 1004.0 falling
Air Temp 28.0 C
Cloud cover Half visible (2 oktas)
• - Cloud cover (clear sky) Cloud type Nimbostratus
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 THE STATION MODEL cont…

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 THE STATION MODEL cont…

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 Station model outline

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 HAND OUTS

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 QUESTIONS?

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