Postman Pat - Depressions

How do people forecast the weather?

What is the weather like in a depression?

What are the different stages?

Key Words

Weather forecast, anticyclone, satellites, weather systems, high pressure, low pressure, Depression, clockwise.

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Cross section through a depression

Cold Front

Showers Behind the cold front.

Warm sector

Warm Front

Area of lowest

pressure

Occluded

Front

Warm Front

Area of low pressure

Cold Front

Pat

Describe the direction of air flow in a depression.

Warm Front

Cold Front

Warm Sector

Low Pressure

Draw the direction of air flow

WhereIs Pat?

Why are there showers here?

Frontal

Convection

or

Relief rainfall.

Why are there clouds here?

Why is it clearer here?

Warm Front Intermittent Showers Nimbostratus Clouds

Cirrus Clouds

Warm Sector

Cold Front

Continuous Rain Showers after the Cold Front

Rain, Thunder and Lightening

Cumulonimbus clouds

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