"Martin Rowley" wrote in message
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"MichaelJP" wrote in message news:40f781b6$0$28802


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I've
been doing on my MET course!

- Michael

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The reason it was troubling me was that looking at the synoptic chart
for
that morning, there didn't seem to be any indication of a system that
brought quite a bit of rain to these parts - making those charts less
useful
for forecasting than I thought they would be.

... this morning's 0600 ASXX (analysis at 0700 clock time) is
instructive he the 'focus' of the precipitation (itself forced/fed by
upper pattern dynamics) would seem to be the fronts drawn as *upper*
features on this chart, but of course the surface fronts are still
important for things like air-mass analysis, low cloud, visibility etc.
This 'split' between whats happening on the surface and at 'mid' levels
is often the case at this time of year.

Martin.

Thanks, Martin - it's certainly complicated!

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