Reading the weather : modern techniques for yachtsmen /
Alan Watts.
- 208 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Bibliography: (page 199) and index.
Part One: Significant weather -- Prognosis -- Winds above the earth -- Upper winds and temperature -- Looking for bad weather -- Case of a breakaway low -- Charting the next twelve hours -- Using cirrus to read the upper winds -- Finding the gradient wind -- Frontal systems -- About warm fronts and occlusions -- About cold fronts -- Cyclonic winds and weather -- Heavy weather -- About showery airstreams -- Sea temperatures -- Wave height -- Light winds -- Moderate winds -- Off a seabreeze coast -- Tropical meteorology -- Thunderstorms -- Satellite cloud images -- A pattern for personal forecasting -- Part Two: Explanations of weather words and phrases.