As a child, have you learned how to read a weather map?

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1. Never. It all just looks like military formations to me. The invasion of the elements.

2. We learnt all that shit in geography class in school. Not as a child, but as a teenager.

3. We covered that in geography class in ISCED level 3. But that might have been a personal preference of the teacher, I don’t know if it’s required by a cantonal or federal curriculum.

   I forgot most of it, but the priniciples are still there.

4. No not really how to read. Was told what is isobar during physics class with simple “you can see it in weather maps” and thats all.

   All my knowledge of this is newer due to my hobby where it is needed

5. Pretty sure we covered basics in geography class at some point. But no I don’t remember enough to fully understand them. Never had a need.

6. I think it might’ve been briefly mentioned during a geography lesson once in secondary school. We were never tested on it though and the knowledge didn’t stick.

7. 7th grade geography. It was one of the modules (wonky translation warning).

   My kid also had to learn the basics in either 7th or 8th grade.

   Neither of us actually remembers anything about it…

8. Yes, but it didn’t stick.

   Quickly forgotten once I wasn’t required to know it

9. Yes in Upper secondary school but since it isn’t mandatory not everyone did

10. I do know that the standard barometric pressure is 1013 hPa and that anything above that more or less amounts to “good weather” and anything below amounts to “bad weather”. I also remember my teacher explaining about the red, blue and purple lines and how they move but that part hasn’t really stuck with me.

11. I guess I’m just a weird kid that does remember everything from geography class(something a colleague noticed just today as well while talking so hey, coincidence) so yes, I remember how, we learned it about 15 years ago in school.

12. I was taught this is Geography but can’t remember much about them

13. Nop i haven’t learned to read those maps as a child in school , they were a mystery to me.
    Recently i have learned a few things about meteorology and i can read weather maps now as an adult . However i no longer see those maps on news weather reports.

14. Well, I learnt what the symbols mean (seeing those daily on TV I probably asked my parents to explain) but if you asked me what the weather’s going to look like I couldn’t tell you.

15. Yes, I remember having to do that in a geography exam at some point.

16. Yes, in the sea scouts when I was around 12 years old ⛵

17. Spending quite a few summers on a boat as a kid, I can read them as that was my job to take a look on the daily forecast and barometric data. But at school, I can’t remember. Might have touched it in geography and probably physics when they covered air pressure.

18. Taught in Geography, but I have to say I am still a bit vague about what an occluded front is.

19. Yes i did. Shouldn’t surprise you since i’m from Belgium aswell haha

20. No and no. Even if I had have been taught this as a kid, I wouldn’t have been interested. As an adult, I leave such analysis to my weather app.

21. When I was a teenager, yes. It’s part of my degree so I can still read it.