🔍 Key Concepts

• Sources of marine weather information routinely used at sea • How mariners track large-scale storm systems like hurricanes or cyclones • Difference between real-time observations on your vessel vs. synoptic (big-picture) weather products

💭 Think About

• Which option would actually show you the storm’s current position and forecast track over a wide ocean area? • Which choices are mainly reference/observation guides rather than tools that give you an updated storm track? • Think about what professional mariners typically use on the bridge to follow the movement of a hurricane day by day.

✅ Before You Answer

• Identify which choices provide up-to-date, time-sensitive weather data rather than static reference material. • Check which option would most likely include a plotted storm center, pressure fields, and forecast path. • Eliminate any option that would not change if the storm strengthened, weakened, or altered course — you need dynamic information to follow a storm.