Last week’s winter freeze, the second widespread freeze in the first three weeks of January, appeared to follow a pattern that weather scientists call a “McFarland Signature.” This refers to an air ...

The basic concepts of weather forecasting and analysis on synoptic scales are covered theoretically as well as in application to case studies and current weather. The coursework encourages the ...

Forecasting the weather for the coming days is no easy task, especially when wintry weather is involved across the Southeast ...

Weather maps are created by plotting or tracing the values of relevant quantities such as sea level pressure, temperature, and cloud cover onto a geographical map to help find synoptic scale ...