Synoptic charts

• Warm Front
• High Air Pressure
• Cold Front
• High Temperatures

• High Pressure
• Warm Front
• Cold Front
• Mountains

High Pressure is associated with this type of weather...

• Cloudy/Overcast Weather

• Cold Weather

• Warm Weather

• Fair Weather

Low pressure is associated with this type of weather...

• Cloudy/Overcast Weather

• Cold Weather

• Warm Weather

• Fair Weather

What is an isobar?

• lines joining places of equal air pressure.

• lines that show areas of equal temperature

• lines that show areas of equal precipitation

• something that indicates that cooler conditions are coming

• a line that shows air pressure in hectopascals

What do diagonal lines on a synoptic chart indicate?

• a weather system that brings fine conditions with little likelihood of rain

• rain has fallen in the previous 24 hours

• a weather system that moves in a east to west direction across Australia

• a weather system that brings extensive rain

• a weather system that brings cooler conditions, winds change from a northerly and southerly direction

The closer together the isobars,

• the stronger the winds.

• the weaker the winds.

• the more rain.

• the higher the temperature.

• High Air Pressure
• High Temperatures
• Heavy Rain
• Hail