Cold Front Weather Map

Monday, September 30, 2019

Cold Front Weather Map

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. We ll try to make a little more sense of this data and eventually locate a cold front.

Fronts North Carolina Climate Office

The national hurricane center is monitoring an area of low pressure along the coast of south carolina for tropical or subtropical development.

Cold front weather map

. Disturbance along south carolina coast. Weather in motion radar maps classic weather maps regional satellite. Severe storms in central u s. Study this example carefully because you will have an opportunity to do a surface weather map analysis of.

Forecast surface fronts. Cold fronts nearly always extend anywhere from a south direction to a west direction from the center of low pressure areas and never from the center of high pressure systems. On weather maps a cold front is represented by a solid blue line with filled in triangles along it like in the map on the left. Cold fronts typically move from northwest to southeast.

Allergy tracker cold flu water scarcity boat beach forecast. Heat concerns in the northeast and southern plains. A cold front can bring cold temperatures torrential rains and high wind speeds. Notice on the map that temperatures at the ground level change from warm to cold as you cross the front line.

The triangles are like arrowheads pointing in the direction that the front is moving. So it is still called a cold front even in summer if the temperature only lowers from for example 95 f 35 c ahead of the front to near 90 f 32 c behind the front. 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.

Cold Front Transition Zone From Warm Air To Cold Air