
The Weather Handbook
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This handbook has been the standard reference for over 20 years for students on Day Skipper and Yachtmaster courses, and the handbook of choice for skippers and crew of cruising and racing yachts. The fourth edition has been updated and expanded with new photos and explanatory text, addressing new sources of weather information. There are countless websites and apps providing forecast data, and The Weather Handbook guides users in how to use and interpret this information for themselves, taking a general forecast for a wide area to provide a local forecast for a specific location.
'The perfect introduction to understanding weather' Practical Boat Owner
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- Cover
- Title Page
- Contents
- About this book
- 1 Significant Weather
- 2 Looking at the Sky
- Cloud decks
- The cloud catalogue
- 3 Clouds and Cloudiness
- Satellite cloudscapes
- Clues from space
- Holes in the clouds
- When the isobars bend
- Cyclonic
- Cloudiness
- 4 From the Four Winds
- The world's weather systems
- Source regions
- Blocking highs
- Sources for America
- Other airmasses
- 5 The Message in the Winds
- A model depression
- Upper winds
- Contour charts
- Winds over lows
- When warmer air is coming
- Watching the cirrus
- Better weather coming
- 6 Weather Systems
- Occluding depressions
- Warm fronts
- Signs in the sky
- The passing front
- The warm sector
- The cold front
- 7 Tying Up Low Weather
- Real situations
- Waves in the upper westerlies
- Proving the Crossed Winds rules
- The rules in practice
- 8 When Cold Air is Coming
- The cold front
- Inversions of temperature
- The over-night inversion
- The subsidence inversion
- 9 Low Winds and Weather
- The surface wind
- Wind shifts and fronts
- Lesser lows
- Wave lows
- Heat lows
- Polar lows
- 10 A Day's Wind
- Winds of the early morning
- Winds in the forenoon
- Winds in the afternoon
- Winds coastwise
- 11 When Showers are Forecast
- What makes a shower?
- Looking for shower clouds
- The life of a shower
- Winds around showers
- Showers on coasts
- Other kinds of showers
- 12 Facts About Wind
- Wind and pressure
- Wind and coasts
- Local winds
- Sea-breezes
- The sea-breeze season
- Nocturnal winds
- Mountain winds
- Inland local winds
- 13 Rain and Snow
- Drizzle
- Rain
- The windscreen-wiper rain-gauge
- Rain and driving
- Snow
- 14 High Weather
- Blocking highs
- Fog
- Frost
- 15 Thunder and Lightning
- Thunderstorm cells
- Timing the storm
- High level storms
- Supercells
- 16 Some Fundamental Principles
- 17 Conclusion
- 18 Information and Explanations
- Acknowledgements
- By the same author
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