Notes: Understanding and
Reading Weather Maps
A rainy day is just weather, which can change day to day. Climate is
the pattern of weather seen over a long period of time.
Good weather (sunny) with cooler temperatures
Poor weather (snowy or rainy) and warmer temperatures
Temperature
Humidity
higher
lower
equator
warmer
poles
cooler
A front is the boundary between air masses with different
temperatures
change
direction
Stormy/rainy weather
It decreases
direction
Light rain and precipitation
It increases
Each air mass has equal pressure, so neither one
moves
Several days of light rain and clouds
direction
Precipitation and strong winds
Warm front
It was a cold front with rainy, precipitous weather and cooler
temperatures
Cooler temps and good weather because it is a high
pressure area.
It is fine if your answers are in a different order as long as the information for each is correct!
Cold front. Heavy rains
and stormy weather.
Temps decrease.
Warm front. Light rain
and precipitation. Temps
increase.
Stationary front. Several
days of light rain and
cloudy skies
Occluded front. Creates
precipitation and some
strong winds
High pressure system.
Good weather, clear,
sunny skies and cooler
temperatures.
Low pressure system.
Poor weather, cloudy,
rainy and warmer
temperatures.