Understanding Your Forecast
Learn more about how meteorologists prepare weather forecasts and the information they use. These articles will teach you how to read a weather map and introduce you to the terminology you need to truly understand your forecast.
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Chance of Rain: Making Sense of Precipitation Forecasts
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A Guide to the Tools Used to Measure the Weather World
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Using Clouds to Predict the Weather
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How to Simulate Weather Fronts
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How to "Speak" Weather Forecasting
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How a Barometer Works and Helps Forecast Weather
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Learn the Basic Science of Meteorology
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Calculating the Heat Index
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Occluded Fronts: When Warm and Cold Fronts Meet
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How Temperature Fluctuates Throughout the Day
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Weather Satellites: Forecasting Earth's Weather From Space
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How to Become a Meteorologist at Any Age
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7 Types of Weather in a High Pressure System
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How to Use Weather Maps to Make a Forecast
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Understanding Convectional Rainfall
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How to Identify Severe Thunderstorms on Radar
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Weather Watch vs. Warning vs. Advisory
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Why Winter Weather Is Difficult to Forecast
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In Meteorology, What Is a Low-Pressure Area?
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Clouds That Spell Severe Weather
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Zulu Time: The World's Weather Clock
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Woolly Worms: The Original Winter Weather Outlooks
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To the Right, To the Right (The Coriolis Effect)
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11 Funny Weather Reports, Commercials, and Bloopers