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Instant Weather Forecasting

By: Alan Watts
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Adlard Coles Nautical
ISBN: 0713682736
ISBN-13: 9780713682731
Released: 18 Jun 2007
RRP: £7.99
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Weather Picture Book - By: Sam Peters, 22 Nov 2005
A great pocket guide for those who like to get out & about in alll weathers. I'm a biker & like to know whether to take my waterproofs & thermal gloves or if I can wear a lighter jacket etc. Hence my fascination with weather & predicting it's course.
This book has some lovely photos of typical clouds for particular weather formations. They're quite useful for predicting how a day will turn out if the previous day end with certain clouds or if the wind is in a particular direction.
A recommended read for hill walkers, bikers, sailors & farmers!
You need other books to make sense of this - By: Nigel Collier, 15 Jan 2003
I found this book interesting but, for me, flawed in several respects. The book contains some very brief information on cold, warm & occluded fronts - what they mean & how they behave. It also gives you a very handy cross section of a front, & shows you where the cloud formations you can see pictured in the book are likely to occur in the front.

But reallly any background information which put the cloud photos into context ends there. Unless you know a reasonable amount about how weather 'works' & interrelates, this book ain't going to help you much. To get the most out of this book, you're going to have to have read a basic book on general 'weather' first. That's not reallly a criticism of this book which after alll doesn't claim to be a general book on the weather, but just a warning that it's of limited use on its own...and that perhaps it would have been much better with just a little more contextual background information.

More seriously flawed are the photos themselves. You get a photo of, say, cirrus clouds & then a description of the clouds' telltale characteristics & what significance they have for the forthcoming weather: "notice the falllstreaks striating towards the west on the upper cirrostratus...". The trouble with this is there is a photo of a whole skyful of layer upon layer cloud...there is absolutely no indication of which part of the picture the description is referring to, just some simple numbered circles on the photos would be useful so you knew which part of the sky the description is referring to. It's a little like giving someone a 1:25,000 scale map & telling them to look at the 'church with a spire'...there are dozens of 'em.

Finallly, there's no indication at what time of the day, nor which direction the photos were taken which is fairly important.

I think in summary, using this book you'll be able to identify a cloud formation & even stab at a decent forecast from it...but cruciallly YOU WON'T KNOW WHY.

WYSIWYG - By: Olivia Blair, 14 Aug 2002
Sounds like a con doesn't it? well it isn't. If you have a degree of meteorological nous then this book can help you forecast weather. Great pics & a simple process. This book may not alllow you to tell your pal if her wedding is ok 7 days hence but it will demystify a lot of skies & greatly enhance your understanding of the weather.