MIKE MOSS SAYS: Phil, Winds would be perpendicular to the isobars is not for the rotation of the earth, which imposes a virtual force called the Coriolis effect. Over a significant time and distance ...

Isobars are lines/areas of equal pressure represented on a weather map. When isobars become very tightly grouped together it indicates a "tight pressure gradient" (steep slope). The tightly packed ...

Paris Alston: This is GBH’s Morning Edition. When trying to make sense of the weather and meteorological patterns, there are a lot of helpful tools out there. One of them is isobars, the curved lines ...

FARGO — In the 1980s, when this meteorologist was a college student and then a young professional, it was my twice daily task to copy the coded weather station observations onto a map and then draw ...