WX INFO
Lesson 1 Introduction
Lesson 2
Station Plotting-Decoding and Cloud Types
Lesson 3
Contouring I
Lesson 4
Contouring II
Lesson 5
Air Masses
Lesson 6
Fronts
Lesson 7
Satellite
Lesson 8
Radar and Thunderstorms
Lesson 9
Upper Air
Lesson 10
Mid-Latitude Cyclone
Lesson 11
Case Study I
Lesson 12
Case Study II

Station Model and Cloud Types

Objective

    To understand weather you must make careful observations and how weather variables change. This lesson includes exercises on cloud identification and how to read symbols on a weather map.

Background

Station Model Background

Station Model Quick Review

Cloud Type Background (Includes large gif images of cloud types)

Practice

Station Model Practice

Cloud Type Practice

Assignment (Print out and hand in during lecture)

Station Model Assignment SOLUTION

Station Model Assignment

Cloud Type Assignment SOLUTION

Cloud Type Assignment

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