Guide to Weather Forecasting: All the Information You'll Need to Make Your Own Weather Forecast (Firefly Pocket Series) - Softcover

Dunlop, Storm

 
9781554073696: Guide to Weather Forecasting: All the Information You'll Need to Make Your Own Weather Forecast (Firefly Pocket Series)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1554073693 ISBN 13: 9781554073696
Publisher: Firefly Books Ltd, 2008

Synopsis

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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    About the Author

    Storm Dunlop is a well-known authority on meteorology and astronomy and is the author ofPractical Astronomy.

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    Publisher
    Firefly Books Ltd
    Publication date
    2008
    Language
    English
    ISBN 10 
    1554073693
    ISBN 13 
    9781554073696
    Binding
    Paperback
    Number of pages
    176