This is an example of a synoptic chart. Weather is recorded on the chart using special symbols, which represent the conditions at weather station at that present time.

Where the wind has come from…. The wind speed is shown by the ‘feathers’. Five knots is added for each half a feather. In an exam you would be given a key. 10 knots. Winds are named after their origin.

In an exam you would be given a key. Eight Oktas- cloud cover. Heavy Rain. Sometimes a number may represent the temperature. 5

* 21 Snow, but no cloud cover. High temperature but snow! Unusually high winds, considering lack of cloud cover and temperature.

1. Wind direction and speed.

2.Cloud cover and weather.

3.Wind direction and wind speed.

5.Wind direction, cloud cover, weather and wind speed.,

5.Wind speed.

6.Cloud cover and weather, wind speed and wind direction.,

7.Wind speed.

8.Weather.

9.Weather.

10 Wind direction and speed.

I wandered lonely as a cloud, That floats on high o'er vales and hills….

Thin wispy high clouds

High, small, puffy and patchy

Tall, fluffy angry looking grey clouds

Medium height, small puffy clouds, patchy lines

Thin and uniform

Low, puffy and piled up

Uniform, thin to think layered clouds, ill-defined

Broad and flat on the bottom, puffy on top

Cirro- given to high altitude clouds- means wisp of hair. Alto- given to mid- altitude clouds- means high. Nimbo (prefix) or nimbus (suffix)- is used for clouds that bring rain. Cumulo- means heap and refer to piles of clouds. Stratus- means layer and refers to flat wide layered clouds.