Question 4 This is a station plot. Using information from your notes and Appendi

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Question 4 This is a station plot. Using information from your notes and Appendix B from the text answer the questions below. Not yet answered Points out of 20.0 Flsg question 27 997.3 2.1 25 What is the temperature? What is the dewpoint temperature? Which direction s the wind coming from? 27 degrees F 25 degrees F Chooa What is the current weather? What is the value of the barometric pressure?Choose. What is the barometric pressure trend? What is the current sky condition? What is the magnitude of the pressure trend Choose What is the wind speed? Choose Choose Chooso Choose

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Station plots are illustrations that show the weather the given meassuring station.

1. Temperature - Shown on the upper left corner - 270 F

2. Dewpoint temperature - Shown on the lower left corner - 250 F

3. Wind direction - Coming from East

The wind barb shows both direction and speed. The flags face the direction from which winds are blowing.

4. Current weather - heavy snow

The asterix (*) symbol denotes snow, if only 2 asterix, it means light snow, 3 asterix means moderate snow and 4 asterix means heavy snow.

5. Barometric preassure - given at the top right corner - 997.3 mb

Usually this'll be given in the plot as 973, but here it is given directly with the decimal point.

6. Barometric preassure trend is falling

the backslash () represents falling barometric preassure.

7. Current sky condition - completely cloudy

The circle in the middle represents cloud cover. Completely shaded circle means full cloud cover and empty circle means clear sky.

8. The magntude of the preassure trend - 2.1 mb

Shown below the preassure trend symbol (), the minus sign indicates it has fallen down

9. Wind speed - 15 knots

Each full flag on the wind barb denotes 10 knots and half flags denotes 5 knots. Here on the wind barb, there is one full flag and on half flag.

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