Galeboard

Fictional continent. This is not real weather and not a forecast. Galeboard puts you on duty at the chart desk of Aunder, a continent that exists only in this game. Each game day is one shift: a synoptic chart in the morning, your prognosis by midday, the verdict when tomorrow’s chart comes in. Here is a week of it. Monday’s chart The 00 h chart is waiting: lows and highs with their central pressure, isobars every 4 hPa, warm fronts with red half-discs, cold fronts with blue triangles, purple occlusions, the steering arrows and a pale ghost of yesterday’s centres. You see where every system was and where the flow is taking it. A small tag at the west edge tells you what arrives tomorrow. Midweek, at the prognosis board Drag each centre to where it will be in 24 hours. Pull the end of a cold front forward — it runs a quarter faster than its low — and watch it close on the warm front…