Defining weather What is weather? |  Why does weather matter? | Historical impacts of weather in the UK | Weather impacts on people - 1999 | Weather impacts - USA 1997 Mechanics of weather  Heating and cooling, rising and falling Stability and instability Condensing and evaporating Weather interpretation Identifying cloud types Interpreting cloud types

Air masses origins and types Introduction to air masses  Typical air mass weather in summer and winter  Describing and analysing weather patterns Synoptic chart - Introduction | Worked example with sample exercises | Interpreting satellite images | Animated imagery

Weather systems  Anticyclones - types | Anticyclones - weather Anticyclone/depression contrasts Depression origin | Depression formation (cyclogenesis) Depression structure | Fronts and weather Warm fronts | Cold fronts | Occluded fronts Weather forecasting  Weather forecasting with models

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