Download Creating a Weather Map

Creating a Weather Map
Directions: Use the website from our science wiki page to create a
weather map based on the information below. When you are done you will take a picture of your final product by pressing these keys
at the same time: apple+shift+3. Then save this picture as your first
and last name on the desktop in a JPEG format.
http://www.glencoe.com/sec/science/activities/weather/index.html
1) A cold front is moving southeast from northern Oklahoma through Central Michigan.
2) A warm front is moving north from Michigan's upper peninsula through Vermont.
3) The cold front and warm front, from #1 & #2, are connected to a Low Air Pressure
over northern Michigan and Lake Huron.
4) There is a Low Air Pressure between the borders of Alabama & Mississippi with a cold
front attached to it moving east-southeast into the Gulf of Mexico.
5) A warm front headed northeast is attached to the Low Air pressure in Alabama.
6) The warm front from #5 changes into a stationary front spreading from the Gulf of
Mexico through Central Florida and into the Atlantic Ocean. (the warm air symbol is
facing north and the cold south)
7) A stationary front is attached to the cold front in Northern Oklahoma and runs
through Colorado into the middle of Wyoming. (warm air symbol is north, cold is south)
8) This stationary front is connected to a warm front heading northeast from Wyoming
to Washington.
9) There is a Low Air Pressure area over the eastern border of the State of Washington
and Western Montana that is connected to the warm front and a cold front moving
southeast into Northern California.
10) There are two High Air Pressure areas: one over Canada, north of North Dakota; and
one in Western Texas near the New Mexico border.
11) Quite a bit of precipitation is falling around the country: we have light rain in
northern Louisiana and eastern Tennessee. It is raining heavily in western Washington,
Southern Georgia, and off the western
coast of Florida in the Gulf of Mexico.
12) Heavy rain showers are being created by strong thunderstorms in the Gulf and light
thunderstorms in northern Florida. There is some light rain falling over northern
Louisiana and Eastern Tennessee near the North Carolina border. There is also heavy
rain falling off the coast of Washington near the Pacific Ocean.
13) Heavy snow is falling in Montana, British Columbia Canada, and southern Ohio. There
are light snow showers between northern Colorado and Utah, Idaho, northern and
southern Minnesota, southern Illinois, western Kentucky, eastern Arkansas, New York,
and all along the Canadian border north of the warm front.