Product Task: Make and Interpret a Weather Map
Dominion Virginia Power Weather Center
Be a weather wizard! Print the weather map and use a red, blue, yellow and black marker
to create the following weather map:
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Using the blue marker, draw a cold front that begins near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and
extends south through West Virginia into southwest Virginia, west of Roanoke, Virginia,
heading eastward toward Central Virginia.
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Using the red marker, draw a warm front that begins near Pittsburgh, Pa. And extends
southeastward toward Washington, D.C. out into the Atlantic Ocean heading to the
northeast.
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Use the black marker to put the symbol for the center of a low-pressure area just north of
Pittsburgh, Pa.
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Use the black marker to put the symbol for the center of a high-pressure area behind the
cold front.
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Use the red marker to draw a severe thunderstorm warning box around Roanoke,
Virginia.
Use the yellow marker to draw a severe thunderstorm watch box around Lynchburg,
Virginia.
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Use the black marker to draw a wind feather for Richmond, Virginia that shows clear
skies with wind coming from the south at 10 miles per hour.
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Use the black marker to draw a wind feather for Lynchburg, Virginia that shows partly
cloudy skies with wind coming from the southwest at 15 miles per hour.
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Use the black marker to draw a wind feather for Roanoke, Virginia that shows cloudy
skies with wind coming from the west at 20 miles per hour.
Write a paragraph that explains your map construction:
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Which direction is the cold front moving? How can we see that from the map?
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Why is it so cloudy and windy in Roanoke, Virginia?
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Why is it only partly cloudy and less windy in Lynchburg, Virginia?
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Why does Richmond, Virginia have clear skies and southerly winds?
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