Question

A weather map shows temperature, wind speed and direction, weather conditions, warm and cold fronts, air pressure, and pressure systems.
The warm front is moving toward the
.

There is a
low-pressure system
sitting in the center of the map.

The arrow points to the weather in the Missouri area. There, the temperature is
°F, and the winds are blowing from the
at about 25 knots.

The area surrounding the cold front has mostly
skies.

Answer 1

I don’t have the map image, so I can’t fill the blanks accurately. Could you upload the weather map (or paste a clear screenshot)? I’ll fill in each blank once I can see it.

If you’d rather do it yourself, here’s how to read each item from the map/station models:

- Warm front movement: look at the line with semicircles. The semicircles point in the direction the warm air is moving (that’s the direction the front is moving toward).
- Low-pressure system: marked with a red or black “L” (or just “L”) — that is the low-pressure system in the center of the map.
- Missouri station model (temperature and wind):
- Temperature is the number usually just to the left of the station circle.
- Wind direction is shown by the wind barb (shaft points toward the station): winds blow from the direction the shaft is coming from (so if the shaft points from the southwest to the station, the wind is from the southwest).
- Wind speed: barbs = 10 knots each, half-barb = 5 knots, pennant = 50 knots. 25 knots = two full barbs (20) + one half barb (5).
- Skies around the cold front: look at cloud/precip symbols ahead of the front. Typically ahead of (east/northeast of) a cold front you see clouds and precipitation (overcast/showers), and behind the front you often get clearing/mostly clear skies.

Send the map and I’ll fill in the blanks exactly.