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Reading the Clouds: How You Can Forecast the Weather

Autor Oliver Perkins
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 15 feb 2023
Wouldn't it be useful to be able to come up with an accurate weather forecast simply by reading the clouds? Well, with this book, you can!TV forecasts, online predictions and smartphone apps are all based on the same data - a number-crunched overview of how air pressure and temperature affects the weather over a large geographical area. But to get an idea of how the weather will develop for the precise spot where you're standing (or walking, sailing, golfing, fishing, etc) you don't need any equipment or a wifi connection - you just need to look up.This book will give you a great understanding of why clouds are symptoms of weather patterns, not causes. Highly practical, it shows you how by reading these signs in the sky and referring to the explanatory colour photos and diagrams, you will be able to tell exactly what those signs mean.After its very well received first edition, this second edition is revised and expanded, including plenty of new photos to cover every possible view of the sky. With this at-a-glance guide to the clouds anywhere in the world, on land or at sea, you will be able to predict the weather by recognising cloud types, shapes, colours and behaviour.Including a Foreword by Tom Cunliffe, writer, TV presenter and yachting instructor, this will be an invaluable companion for everyone who enjoys time spent outdoors.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781399401425
ISBN-10: 1399401424
Pagini: 128
Ilustrații: Full colour photos and illustrations throughout
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.27 kg
Ediția:2
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Adlard Coles
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Caracteristici

The best ideas are often the simplest - Oliver Perkins has synthesised the essence of reading the clouds to forecast the local and imminent weather with no need for apps or an internet connection

Notă biografică

Oliver Perkins sailed a Laser 4.7 for the British team. He has written for Yachting Monthly and Practical Boat Owner, is also the author of the Reeds Cloud Handbook and updated the new edition of the late Alan Watts' seminal Weather Handbook, both published by Adlard Coles.

Cuprins

Foreword by Tom CunliffeForeword by Duncan Wells1. Getting to know the basics2. Reading the high clouds3. Reading the middle clouds4. Reading the low clouds5. Clouds with vertical growth6. Weather forecasting rules7. Local conditions8. Weather lore9. Quiz - what did you learn?Appendix 1 - Logging your observationsAppendix 2 - The Beaufort scale of wind speedBibliographyGlossaryQuick reference guide

Recenzii

Well researched - practical information in an easy to assimilate form
So good that my Yachtmaster candidates would do well to read it. I learned something from this book. I bet you do too
Absolutely brilliant; a must for anyone who does anything outside and for whom the weather might be important. Everyone, wherever they are in the world, will get something from this book
If you've ever wanted to forecast the weather by analysing clouds, you'll love this book.