Weather Tidbits: Weather Station Plot

The weather station plot is the main focus on this Weather Tidbits. A station plot is an illustration using symbols to show weather information at a station. The station plot allows for lots of information to be packed into a small place on a map. The coding on a station plot is an internationally accepted convection; that has remained mostly unchanged since the 1940s. A station plot consists of temperature, dew point, wind, cloud cover, pressure, pressure tendency & current weather.