Where's The Cold Front?

The science of meteorology can be very challenging at times because it is considered an inexact science. It has many known and unknown variables that are changing all of the time. One of the main variables is a cold front. Many of them can be very very subtle and it can be nearly impossible to detect their exact location. Well, then you have a day like today where in couldn't be any more obvious for us big weather nerds. The images below are both current conditions (when I wrote this blog) and forecast conditions. See if you can pick out the cold front in all of them. The answer images are at the end.

The first set of images are the dewpoint temperature forecasts for this morning and around noon.

This second set consists of the forecast wind speeds for this morning and then again this afternoon.And the last image is a surface map snapshot that I took at roughly 7:30 this morning.Here are the answers. These are the exact five images that I showed above except I drew in the cold fronts' location in black.

If you didn't find the location of the front in all five pictures, don't beat yourself up about it. Just remember that its not an exact science so sometimes things can seemingly disappear and you have to fill in the blanks a little. For instance, the second wind image (the fourth image down), there is no longer an abrupt wind change in places along the front, therefore, you have to estimate where it is. This is why its not an exact science. But if you did get all five right, maybe you should give me a call and teach me a thing or two, lol.

~KDLT Meteorologist Cody Matz