Is there a particular reason why high pressure is colored orange and low pressure is colored blue on the maps? This site has become an excellent teaching tool for my middle school students, but the coloring is confusing students. On a standard weather map low pressure is noted with a red L and high pressure a blue H. Is it possible to make the low pressure areas orange and the high pressure areas blue?

Is there a particular reason why high pressure is colored orange and low pressure is colored blue on the maps? This site has become an excellent teaching tool for my middle school students, but the coloring is confusing students. On a standard weather map low pressure is noted with a red L and high pressure a blue H. Is it possible to make the low pressure areas orange and the high pressure areas blue?

@yves70 Thank you for the suggestion!

I found your website accidently, and it has been a game changer for my classroom. I teach middle school, and we use the website everyday to look at different aspects of weather. I would love to see a "layer" for air masses and fronts. At minimum, having fronts added would be the most useful. I think this is an important piece of the weather world that is very difficult to find if looking for current conditions.

Thank you for your consideration!

Lisa Dillingham