Superimposed on a satellite photograph of the North Pole are continental outlines, latitude and longitude lines, sea-level isobars, and surface weather fronts. Over the central United States a cold front leads to an outbreak of polar air, and cloud patterns depict fronts and wave cyclones over the Atlantic Ocean, Europe, and Asia. Two high-pressure centers over the Pacific Ocean are revealed by fairly clear skies. Broad cloud zones lie along fronts extending from Alaska and off eastern Asia. A cloud band spirals out of a storm center in the western Pacific. White areas over Canada are mostly ice or snow on the ground.
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