synoptic

That’s because, by the time a large-scale synoptic system makes its way across the country and evolves over time, it typically reaches the Southeast right during those evening hours.

Tornado outbreaks are associated with a large-scale synoptic system.

What unites these writers is their disregard for traditional disciplinary boundaries and a determination to reach for synoptic knowledge of stupefyingly complex subjects.

Several days out, it’s possible to begin keying in on the positions of synoptic, or larger-scale, features that are important to the forecast.

Maybe a more synoptic way of putting it is that we seem to evince less and less interest in citizenship and more and more interest in consumerism.