How Do Weather Maps Help Meteorologists?
The weather map is the most valuable tool that the meteorologist uses to forecast the weather. Without this tool, it would be very hard to predict what the weather was going to do. Weather maps summarize what is happening in the atmosphere at a certain time, and it would be very difficult to predict changes in the weather without these maps. By looking at weather maps from different heights in the atmosphere, a meteorologist can make a three-dimensional picture, in their heads, of what is happening in the atmosphere. They can tell whether a particular area has high or low pressure, whether it may rain, and many other things just by looking at a weather map. Today, weather observations are taken from thousands of locations. This data is then sent to Washington, DC where it is analyzed. Computers are the main tool creating weather maps since they can handle large amounts of data quickly. Forecasts have become much more accurate since meteorologists have better weather maps than in the pa
