Adlard Coles The Weather Handbook: The Essential Guide to How Weather is Formed and Develops
Description
The Weather Handbook is the essential guide to how the weather is formed, providing readers with the ability to look at the sky and interpret its signs, and combine this knowledge with information provided by professional forecasts to assess for themselves what the coming weather is likely to be. 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
Specifications
| Dimensions | 15.75 x 1.14 x 23.24 cm |
| Edition | 4th |
| Isbn 10 | 1472978595 |
| Isbn 13 | 978-1472978592 |
| Item Weight | 363 g |
| Language | English |
| Print Length | 160 pages |
| Publication Date | 12 November 2020 |
| Publisher | Adlard Coles Nautical |
Reviews
User
Great guide
Great guide to being a weather know it all!
User
Book
Excellent book
User
Cloidd
Very educational.
User
Weather changes
Well written, lots of pictures, going to have to reread, more than once.
User
Gems of wisdom, but a little buried in waffle
If your activities depend on being able to understand the weather - as it is seen in the sky above you, then there is much to like in this book. The trouble is, it is not that well written. I made detailed notes and pulled out of it about 5 x A4 pages of really useful stuff and few "rules" which were surprising and seem to work. This took a bit of deconstruction. But it's worth the effort. This guy knows his stuff. A diagnostic like the cross wind rule was unknown to me - but it really works! So...it's a technical work which will work for you if you study it. It is not just a "read".
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