The Weather Handbook - The Essential Guide to How Weather is Formed and Develops

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

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Alan Watts, one-time professional meteorologist, spent considerable time studying wind changes and short-term alterations in the weather. This, combined with his enthusiasm for sailing which began with the sea scouts, enabled him to assist people to read the weather from the signs in the sky. He died in May 2020.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Alan Watts
• Verlag: Adlard Coles
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 31.01.2021
• EAN: 9781472978592
• ISBN: 978-1-4729-7859-2
• Seiten: 160
• Themen: Naturwissenschaften, Medizin, Informatik, Technik > Geowissenschaften > Geologie; Wassersport und Erholung, Meteorologie und Klimatologie (Klimaforschung), SPORTS & RECREATION / Boating, SCIENCE / Earth Sciences / Meteorology & Climatology, Sports & Recreation, NATURE / Weather, Meteorology & climatology, Weather, Weather and climate: general interest, Meteorology and climatology, Boating: Sport and leisure, SPORTS & RECREATION / Water Sports / Sailing