APPLICATIONS+INVESTIGATIONS IN EARTH
APPLICATIONS+INVESTIGATIONS IN EARTH
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ISBN: 9781533902405
Author: Tarbuck
Publisher: Hayden-McNeil Publishing
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Chapter 16.4, Problem 2A
Summary Introduction

To plot:

The weather conditions in the station symbol.

Introduction:

The given weather conditions that need to be plotted on the station symbol include the temperature of 52°F and the dew point of 48°F. The sky is seven-tenths covered by clouds. The wind is blowing from the west at 22 miles per hour. The barometric pressure is found to be 1012.4 millibars which have fallen from 1014.0 millibars in the past 3 hours. It also has been drizzling during the past 6 hours.

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