On a weather map (synoptic chart), a low is denoted by an ‘L’ with the central pressure underneath. East Coast Lows bring a lot more rain than this. Picture: John Grainger.

A synoptic chart is a more detailed weather map which shows what type of weather system is moving over Britain. Isobar lines which join up areas of equal air pressure are drawn on these maps. The ...

THE publication in 1946 of volume 6 of the Scientific Reports, Series B, dealing with the meteorology of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition 1911–14, and, more recently, of vol. 7 of the same ...

Every day since 1956, people in mountaintop observatories have been making careful drawings of the sun. Formally called “solar synoptic maps,” the maps show a daily summary of the sun’s ...

SAN ILDEFONSO, Bulacan, Philippines — The province’s first synoptic weather station, equipped with state-of-the-art instruments, was inaugurated here on Thursday. Nathaniel Servando ...

Conversely, there’s synoptic snow, which is considered a large-scale event. This would be low-pressure systems resulting in widespread snow instead of the narrow swath that we see with lake ...

THEY pop up on our TV screens every single day but more often than not we have no idea what we’re actually looking at.

On a weather map (synoptic chart), a low is denoted by an ‘L’ with the central pressure underneath. East Coast Lows bring a lot more rain than this. Picture: John Grainger.

THEY pop up on our TV screens every single day but more often than not we have no idea what we’re actually looking at.