Guide to Weather Forecasting: All the Information You'll Need to Make Your Own Weather Forecast (Firefly Pocket series) | 
| Author: Storm Dunlop
Publisher: Firefly Books
Category: Book
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Media: Paperback
Edition: Revised
Pages: 176
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Dimensions (in): 7.7 x 5 x 0.5
ISBN: 1554073693
Dewey Decimal Number: 551.63
EAN: 9781554073696
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Product Description
A concise guide to weather systems and weather forecasting. As recent events have shown, weather can have very different consequences depending on where you live. b>Guide to Weather Forecasting covers every aspect of making a forecast and is a handy resource to understanding the professionals' daily weather predictions. Storm Dunlop provides detailed information and expert explanations, including: What causes weather
Weather systems and how they change
Recognizing clouds and sky appearance
Weather conditions, such as depressions, lows and highs, wind systems and direction, dew point, humidity, visibility, frost, anticyclones and snow
The readings meteorologists use when developing a forecast
Extreme weather and climate change Guide to Weather Forecasting also covers charts, satellite images and instruments that can be used at home. With its many color photographs and diagrams, handy glossary and useful index, this is an ideal quick reference for the amateur and semiprofessional weather forecaster.
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Review of GUIDE TO WEATHER FORECASTING April 17, 2010
Rex Ian De Silva (Sri Lanka)
This is an excellent introduction to weather and weather forecasting.The book explains the conditions which govern weather on a planet-wide basis. It describes the atmosphere and its structure, air movements, effects of atmospheric pressure, temperature and humidity. It deals with global circulation, the effects of winds, the Coriolis effect and numerous other factors which affect the weather.The various cloud types and their effects on weather are well described. The color images of the various cloud types are both informative and pleasant to view.Atmospheric optics including rainbows, haloes, sun and moon pillars are succinctly dealt with. There is a comprehensive description of weather systems including fronts, depressions, tornadoes, cyclones and other phenomena. The account of lightning and thunderstorms includes a listing of precautions to be taken for protection from lightning.
The section on weather observation is absorbing. It includes instructions for interpreting weather maps, describes meteorological instruments and weather forecasting.
There is one caveat though: the small print, though clear, is a slight strain on aging eyes like mine.
This book is recommended to amateur meteorologists, astronomers, weather watchers, hunters, anglers and all outdoors men as well as armchair weather watchers.
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