Definition of "isobars" [isobars]

• Plural form of isobar. (noun)

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• "Bernie, try search term 'isobars' - that's a weather map, showing contour lines with temperature ranges, that's the basic idea, I'd expect done the same way Did you get to the page with the 5,000 site data files?"
• "On weather maps, pressure is indicated by drawing isolines of pressure, called isobars, at regular 4 millibar intervals (e.g., 996 mb, 1000 mb, 1004 mb, etc.)."
• "To connoisseurs in weather in the meteorological sense it was a joy and an ensample, for it was a perfect cyclonic storm, exactly the right shape, with all its little dotted lines of "isobars" running in ovals one inside another."