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    The document defines various pressure chart symbols used to represent weather fronts, pressure systems, and atmospheric conditions on weather maps. Key symbols include cold fronts, warm fronts, occluded fronts, isobars, thickness lines, troughs, and convergence lines. Each symbol is concisely described in terms of the air mass or weather feature it represents.

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    The document defines various pressure chart symbols used to represent weather fronts, pressure systems, and atmospheric conditions on weather maps. Key symbols include cold fronts, warm fronts, occluded fronts, isobars, thickness lines, troughs, and convergence lines. Each symbol is concisely described in terms of the air mass or weather feature it represents.

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    The document defines various pressure chart symbols used to represent weather fronts, pressure systems, and atmospheric conditions on weather maps. Key symbols include cold fronts, warm fronts, occluded fronts, isobars, thickness lines, troughs, and convergence lines. Each symbol is concisely described in terms of the air mass or weather feature it represents.

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    Pressure chart symbols

    Cold front Warm front

    The leading edge of an advancing colder air The leading edge of an advancing warmer air

    mass. Its passage is usually marked by cloud mass, the passage of which commonly brings

    and precipitation, followed by a drop in cloud and precipitation followed by increasing

    temperature and/or humidity. temperature and/or humidity.

    Occluded front (or 'occlusion')

    Developing cold/warm front


    Occlusions form when the cold front of a
    (frontogenesis)
    depression catches up with the warm front,

    lifting the warm air between the fronts into a Represents a front that is forming due to

    narrow wedge above the surface. Occluded increase in temperature gradient at the surface.

    fronts bring cloud and precipitation.

    Upper cold/warm front

    Weakening cold/warm front (frontolysis)


    Upper fronts represent the boundaries between

    air masses at levels above the surface. For


    Represents a front that is losing its identity,
    instance, the passage of an upper warm front
    usually due to rising pressure. Cloud and
    may bring warmer air at an altitude of
    precipitation becomes increasingly fragmented.
    10,000 ft, without bringing a change of air mass

    at the surface.

    Quasi-stationary front Isobars

    A stationary or slow-moving boundary between Contours of equal mean sea-level pressure

    two air masses. Cloud and precipitation are (MSLP), measured in hectopascals (hPa). MSLP

    usually associated. maxima (anticyclones) and minima


    (depressions) are marked by the letters H

    (High) and L (Low) on weather charts.

    Trough

    An elongated area of relatively low surface

    pressure. The troughs marked on weather

    charts may also represent an area of low

    thickness (thickness trough), or a perturbation


    Thickness lines
    in the upper troposphere (upper trough). All are

    Pressure decreases with altitude, and thickness associated with increasing cloud and risk of

    measures the difference in height between two precipitation.

    standard pressure levels in the atmosphere. It

    is proportional to the mean temperature of this

    layer of air, so is a useful way of describing the

    temperature of an airmass. Convergence line

    Weather charts commonly show contour lines of A slow-moving trough, which is parallel to the

    1,000-500 hPa thickness, which represent the isobars and tends to be persistent over many
    depth (in decametres, where 1 dam = 10 m) of hours or days. They are quite common in cold
    the layer between the 1,000 hPa and 500 hPa northerly outbreaks down the Irish Sea,
    pressure levels. Cold, polar air has low affecting west Wales, Devon and Cornwall in
    thickness, and values of 528 dam or less particular, but can be found in other areas also.
    frequently bring snow to the UK. Conversely, This convergence line can gives hours of
    warm, tropical air has high thickness, and persistent precipitation over very localised
    values in excess of 564 dam across the UK areas, whilst a few miles down the road it is
    often indicate a heatwave. relatively dry, leading to some heavy

    snowfall/rainfall. In summer the convergence

    lines are not as easy to forecast, but then can

    still occur due to sea-breeze convergence, and

    are over the land, whilst in winter they are over

    the sea.

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