How Well Can You Predict Tomorrow's Weather?
ES2013  Satellite Imagery Combined with Surface Analysis Data

This map combines a surface analysis map with a color-enhanced infrared image from a satellite. The locations of fronts are indicated with standard symbols. A key showing weather front symbols is located at: Weather Map Front Symbols .

The colored part of this image shows the temperature at the tops of the clouds. As temperature decreases with increasing height in the lower atmosphere, colder clouds indicate higher clouds.

  !   Click either side of the map to see a larger version. Use the color code to examine the temperatures and infer the height of clouds in the image.

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Surface analysis data overlaid on a color-enhanced infrared satellite image.

2. What does this image tell about the weather near the low-pressure areas that the previous image does not?

 


	

 	

		
			
	

	
	

		 
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