This is a surface weather map for the USA What area of the country is dominated

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This is a surface weather map for the USA

What area of the country is dominated by a cold front?__________________________________________________________________________________________________

What kind of front dominates the western portion of the country?____________

As you move from north to south in the area dominated by the cold front, what are the sky conditions at most of the stations?__________________________

Look at the winds on the south eastern border of the cold front. What is the difference between the wind direction in either side of the front?___________________________________________________________

Why is the cause of this circulation?___________________________________

Are there any warm fronts on this map? If so, where?______________________

There are weather stations reporting from the open ocean. Who or what is reporting these conditions?__________________________________________

In the 24 hours after this map was posted, what do you think the weather will be in Washington DC?____________________________________________________________

Why?___________________________________________________________

Surface Data Plot 16452 25 FEB 11 -22 20 294 115 113-11 2400 13153 187 19 8 5 311 1E 324 245 27 277 313 107 54 124 0 224 30 157 37 1584214 46 1194 40 63.145 6 48 181 2 215 216 3 47 41-211 28 42 215 40 47 48 48_188 013 a2 69 -100 30 45 55 130 145 220 240 250 dBZ(winter)

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Weather buoys are instruments which collect weather and ocean data within the world's oceans, as well as aid during emergency response to chemical spills, legal proceedings, and engineering design. Moored buoys have been in use since 1951, while drifting buoys have been used since 1979. Moored buoys are connected with the ocean bottom using either chains, nylon, or buoyant polypropylene. With the decline of the weather ship, they have taken a more primary role in measuring conditions over the open seas since the 1970s. During the 1980s and 1990s, a network of buoys in the central and eastern tropical Pacific ocean helped study the El Ni

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