Synoptic chart wind interpretation

How to estimate wind speed and direction from a synoptic chart.

[cynikalX]

To the folks wondering about the 20 degrees, and where that came from, well.. the first "wind line" he initially drew with the green line is the geostrophic wind, which is higher up in the atmosphere; at the surface, wind tends to "back" (go counter clockwise, near lows, in the northern hemisphere) 15-20 degrees over the ocean (and as much as 30 degrees over land) especially as warm fronts approach.

so the red line is more what the wind we would experience would be like.

still all of this is basically educated guesses, large hills/mountain ranges, coastal bays, etc can all affect this further.

weather can be pretty complex and differ from these kind of predictions.. a weather man is one of the only jobs where you can be wrong often and still have a job :)

[RWBHere]

Thanks. You've explained to me by mentioning the ~20° offset that the weather charts are not surface winds. I've been missing that information for decades, and always wondered why there has been dome variation of the charts to observed conditions.

[shivnallakhan]

Greetings sir. thank you for this short yet detailed video. really helped me a lot and definitly looking foeward for more videos. thank ypu once again. CHEERS!!!

[bobby]

When he says, “as provided by the MET Office”, my ears are pleasured.

[algobo]

Fantastic tutorial, thank you so much!

[doccloudacnh]

I'm hearing wind gust outside of your building.

[barcalonga]

Thanks very much for this, but, though I understand the general ideas, I’m having trouble picturing what you mean and how you get from 1016-1012 means wind is southerly? Maybe you could talk through how you relate the isobars to the centres of the high and low, and then how you can tell the wind direction between, say, two lows? Thanks again!

[ericburi]

where did you get the 20 degrees from and which hemisphere? confusing

[rahulkumar-myzc]

Can u please post more videos for wind direction other than near to longitude so i can get more explained

[cwprskori]

Hi i need help in understanding method for calculating fetch length, decay distance and radius of maximum wind and central pressure

[claussalt]

Thx for sharing. Would you be willing to talk about forecasts, showing a synoptic chart for current, and forecast for 24hrs time and talk through what may happen at a specific location where the weather front passes? (Wind direction and speed changes?

[tekpatekpa]

what was that 20 degrees i missed that point, can anyone help me please ?

[kyranoboyle]

Isobars are the direction, low pressure is anti clockwise and high pressure is clockwise

[rafiashraf]

Do you hear that? Do you wait until there's a storm outside to record videos lol

[benrichards]

Is that rule reversed in the southern hemisphere 

[samw]

or you know that low pressure goes in a anti clock wise movement

[marinkljun]

North limit : August - February ; Longitude 30° W. (5°N. 1S.) Longitutde 10°W. (0° N. 1S.) Longitude 10°E. (- -)., South limit : August - February Long.30°W (17°S 19S) Long. 10°W (23°S 26 S.) Long. 10°E ( 26°S 33 S)!

[LaRobertos]

Ok thousand more times but slower nit following

[ele]

Bunch of words and did not explain anything... typical british "teaching"...