Usstates.gif (GIF Image, 600 × 395 pixels) Downloads - Dashboard Widgets - Weather Underground Dashboard Weather Widget. Beautiful Weather Graphs and Maps - WeatherSpark. Weather Maps: Stationweatherplot.jpg (JPEG Image, 432 × 276 pixels) Wssym.gif (GIF Image, 639 × 891 pixels) Basic_stplot.gif (GIF Image, 806 × 630 pixels) Weather Maps. The constantly changing weather is a fascinating study, to which maps are the key Contents IntroductionWeather Maps Available Maps Wind Highs and Lows FrontsMap Symbols for Weather and Clouds Examples of Actual Station SymbolsLooking at Weather Maps The CWO Analysis Charts The Denver Storm of 18 March 2003 Some Station Symbols from June 2003 From Equinox to SolsticeReferences Introduction The purpose of this article is to introduce and explain the professional weather maps available on the internet, using as the model the analysis charts provided by the Meteorological Service of Canada/Service Météorologique du Canada (MSC/SMC), also known as the Canadian Weather Office (CWO).
A link to this site, and others, is provided in the References. The reader should download a Mean Sea Level Pressure (MSLP) analysis chart from this site for reference while reading this article. An internet search for "weather" or "weather maps" will return over a million sites, most of which are useless. Wind. Weath7.gif (GIF Image, 334 × 228 pixels)