If you want to have insight into weather forecasting, you will definitely need weather maps. Despite its intriguing name, weather map is any map or chart that shows the meteorological elements at a given time over an extended area. The most common type of weather map, normally issued by the National Weather Service (Met Office), shows the distribution of surface isobars (lines of constant pressure) and the location of fronts and severe weather areas such as hurricanes and other storms. At many locations on the map, a standard plotting code indicates wind direction and speed, air temperature and dew point, barometric pressure and its change during the preceding hours, the amount and types of clouds, the weather type, including restrictions to visibility, and the amount and type of precipitation.

What is Isobar: Isobar - line on a weather map of constant barometric pressure drawn on a given reference surface. The isobaric pattern on a constant-height surface is extremely useful in weather forecasting because of the close association between pressure and weather.

Weather Screen has six types of weather maps that will satisfy all your needs for advanced weather prediction:

1. Temperature High
2. Temperature Low
3. Satellite View
4. Weather Radar
5. Precipitation
6. Weather Outlook

All of the above maps except the weather radar map are available for all continents. The weather maps and radar maps are available for continental states only.

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