1. Predicting the Weather
Section 17.3

2. Forecasting Weather Collecting Data Direct Observations
Use of instruments

3. Forecasting Weather Interpret from: Local weather observers Satellites
Radar
Weather balloons
Weather stations

4. Forecasting Weather Analyze data using: Maps Charts Computers
Meteorologists get most of their info from the National Weather Service

5. Forecasting Weather Technology:
Weather balloons – troposphere and lower
stratosphere
Weather satellites – orbit in exosphere
Automated weather stations – over 1700
sites on surface
Computers – handle large amounts of data

6. Forecasting Weather
Weather station model

7. Forecasting Weather
Isobars – lines on a weather map connecting points of equal pressure

8. Forecasting Weather
Isotherms – lines on a weather map connecting points of equal temperature