I encourage all forecast students to check out the notes in the ES 105 section and in the ES 115 notes section. Notes on radar's, severe weather, hurricanes, the atmosphere, and
much more can be found in these sections.
METAR HTML guide on
how to decode METAR observations
FOUS/MOS. HTML guide on
how to decode MOS text data.
FOUS/OUTPUT. HTML guide
on how to decode numerical output data.
Splitflow Jet Example A 500mb chart
with a deep, southwestern, low, in the subtropical jet stream.
Good Shortwave example
Here is a classic case of a shortwave going from positive tilted to negative
tilted as it travels through a rather zonal longwave flow. It occured on
Dec 5th, 1996.