Mesoscale Classifications: Their History and Their Application to Forecasting

So-called synoptic meteorology is the study of meteorological data collected and transmitted by a network of weather stations. The Glossary of Meteorology (Huschke, 1959) defines “synoptic” as referring to “meteorological data obtained simultaneously over a wide area for the purpose of presenting a comprehensive and nearly instantaneous picture of the state of the atmosphere.” Thus, to be synoptic, weather observations must be made simultaneously; the areal extent or horizontal scale of the station network is not specified.

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