Understanding weather - Met Office
Information to help you understand what the weather forecast is saying, how it's created and how to understand where some weather news headlines come from.
Understanding weather systems in the UK - BBC Bitesize
Find out the basics about weather systems; How do latitude, relief, aspect and distance from sea affect weather? How do air masses affect UK weather? What weather do depressions and...
How weather works - Met Office
On a global scale, the circulations of huge tropical Hadley cells determine whole regional climates and weather systems. The world's weather is perpetually on the move, pushed and shaped by...
Weather fronts - Met Office
Most of the frontal systems that affect the UK are formed out over the Atlantic Ocean and move in a west to east direction. Met Office surface pressure charts show forecast pressure and...
Weather - Weather systems - Revision - BBC Bitesize
Local weather in the UK is affected by various factors including latitude and relief, the five main air masses and depressions and anticyclones which produce distinctive weather...
Weather systems - CCEA - BBC Bitesize
In this section we will explore some of the things that create the weather across the British Isles and consider some of the weather systems that affect us. People like to talk about the...
Royal Meteorological Society In Depth - Understanding Weather
Weather systems. Weather can change on a daily basis especially at middle to high latitudes where it is controlled by weather systems, depressions and anticyclones. On a weather chart, lines joining places with equal sea-level pressures are called isobars.
MetLink - Royal Meteorological Society Weather Systems
The weather is normally dry, although occasionally, very hot temperatures can trigger thunderstorms. An anticyclone situated over the UK or near continent usually brings warm, fine weather. Low pressure systems. A low pressure system, also known as a depression occurs when the weather is dominated by unstable conditions.
MetLink - Royal Meteorological Society Weather Systems
In our latitudes a front usually separates warm, moist air from the tropics and cold, relatively dry air from polar regions. Fronts move with the wind, so in the UK this is normally from west to east because our prevailing winds are from the west or southwest.
How to interpret a weather chart | Royal Meteorological Society
2021年8月23日 · The first thing you need to find on a pressure chart is the land – usually, the UK is located fairly centrally, with Iceland and Greenland to the top left and continental Europe to the right. The projection might seem a little bit odd, but having north, where the lines of longitude converge, in the top left corner means we can see as much as ...