Weather Charts

Station reports - current conditions

UK station reports chart

Weather stations, both manual and automatic, make observations and report their data to central bodies such as the UK. Met. Office. The information that is collected is plotted on to a map, providing a visual indication of current weather conditions. To simplify the display, information is coded using a standard set of symbols to represent wind direction and speed, cloud cover, current weather conditions etc. For more detailed descriptions, a standardised 2 digit code is shown, chosen from a listing of 100 descriptions of current weather.

Weather NOW! - real time observations

Marine observations:
Automatic Weather station - current information for Channel Light - automatic weather data recording on unmanned buoy in the middle of the English Channel

Weather station plots - Symbols

Weather conditions	Cloud cover	Wind force


Typical station plot:
Temperature: 12 C Recent weather: Rain and drizzle		Pressure: 996 mB Last 2 digits only shown
Wind direction: South West, wind force: 4, cloud cover: 7 okta

The symbols shown are only able to show a very limited range of weather conditions. A much more detailed description is provided by the internationally agreed 2 digit code, shown in the plotted chart for the UK. Use this code information to identify the weather at the time of observation for the UK reporting stations.

Weather station reports - current numerical data

Weather reports for the UK
Near and real-time reports from weather stations.
Temperature, pressure, wind speed and direction, wave heights etc.

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Other weather chart information:

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