Surface charts are fundamental, current (hourly METAR-based), and easy-to-understand weather tools that provide essential "hard data" for pilot weather briefings. Each data plot on a surface chart ...

Forecasters start with the big picture and from high up in the stratosphere and work their way down to the surface weather. We can get a good idea of what type of air masses are located where just by ...

Ever wonder what the weather was like on your birthday? Or what caused that big arctic outbreak in 1950? Or just want to see how the field of meteorology has progressed over the past 141 years? NOAA ...

A big change is coming as we go from a high pressure ridge Wednesday to the formation of a deep closed upper-level cut-off low aloft into the weekend. I’ve shown and explained the relationship between ...

The article explains how to interpret surface weather charts by focusing on two fundamental patterns: the Prevailing High and the Pacific Storm System. The Prevailing High pattern, originating from ...