68: Dewpoint
998: Pressure, to the nearest tenth of a millibar. Add either a 10 or 9 in front based on which would bring the value closer to 1000. The pressurehere is 999.8 millibars (mb).
-03: Pressure tendency the last 3 hours, to the nearest tenth of a millibar. The pressure here has fallen .3 mb the last 3 hours
Middle Circle (filled in w/ mostly black): Cloud cover. It's mostly black showingthat this station is mostly cloudy. Technically, this represents a brokensky with 7/8 of the sky covered with clouds.
Black line, extending from circle: Wind barb. It points towhere the wind is coming from. The wind here is from the southwest, hencea southwest wind. The two lines extending represent 20 knot winds with eachline representing 10 knots.
Symbol between 77 and 68: This is the present weather fieldand in this case shows that there is a thunderstorm occuring at the station
symbol next to -03: That line is the pressure tendency. The 1st hourthe pressure was steady, then fell the last two hours.
Triangle(with a dot above it): Previous weather, or the weather onehour ago. In this case it was a light rain shower.