{"id":20512,"date":"2020-10-23T08:54:48","date_gmt":"2020-10-23T12:54:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=20512"},"modified":"2020-10-23T08:54:50","modified_gmt":"2020-10-23T12:54:50","slug":"how-to-read-a-surface-weather-map","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2020\/10\/how-to-read-a-surface-weather-map\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Read a Surface Weather Map"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>There are a lot of different ways to get current weather information. One of the best ways to see weather patterns over space is to use a surface weather map to see what is happening in the atmosphere around you. <em>Outside<\/em> magazine provides a useful description of surface weather maps and how to read the information that is contained in one at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outsideonline.com\/2414872\/how-to-read-surface-weather-maps\">https:\/\/www.outsideonline.com\/2414872\/how-to-read-surface-weather-maps<\/a>. There are a lot of different places to get these maps. One of these is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iweathernet.com\/weather-map\">https:\/\/www.iweathernet.com\/weather-map<\/a>. The time on the maps is Greenwich Mean Time, which meteorologists often call Z. Right now in Georgia, our local time is 4 hours behind GMT, but after daylight saving times ends on November 1, we will be 5 hours behind, so keep that in mind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"856\" height=\"556\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2020\/10\/sfc-wx-map-10-23-2020-am.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-20513\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2020\/10\/sfc-wx-map-10-23-2020-am.jpg 856w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2020\/10\/sfc-wx-map-10-23-2020-am-300x195.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2020\/10\/sfc-wx-map-10-23-2020-am-768x499.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 856px) 100vw, 856px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are a lot of different ways to get current weather information. One of the best ways to see weather patterns over space is to use a surface weather map to see what is happening in the atmosphere around you. Outside magazine provides a useful description of surface weather maps and how to read the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":20513,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-science","category-sources-of-weather-and-climate-data"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20512"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20512\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20514,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20512\/revisions\/20514"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}