The weather we experience from day to day is largely a result of the interaction of large-scale dynamical processes occurring on continental scales (the domain of synoptic meteorology) and the small-scale physics of clouds and precipitation. Students are introduced to these weather processes and their forecasting through the study of a selection from the following topics: the meteorological equations of motion and the vorticity equation; geostrophic winds; vorticity conservation; diagnosis of vertical motion using atmospheric vorticity and ageostrophic motion; synoptic-scale weather systems in the Australian region; cloud formation; the microphysics of water droplet and ice-crystal formation and growth in clouds; water and ice precipitation; the global atmospheric observing system; the assimilation of meteorological data.