Colour photographs of cloud formations and their groundbreaking explanatory text enable readers to read the sky, pick up the clues and predict what the weather will do - a brilliant concept.
Instant Weather Forecasting's winning formula of 24 clear colour photographs of cloud formations and accompanying explanatory text enables the reader to study the sky and use clues to predict what the weather will do next.
A perennial bestseller since it was first published over 50 years ago, this revised and updated sixth edition takes into account the new ways users can receive professional weather forecasts, factor them into their own cloud observations, and develop an even better understanding of how the weather will change.
This bestselling gem of a book has sold over a million copies worldwide and continues to be invaluable to anyone participating in outdoor activities, from farming, gardening and walking to riding, golfing, flying, sailing, fishing - and of course holidaymakers.
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Colour photographs of cloud formations and their groundbreaking explanatory text enable readers to read the sky, pick up the clues and predict what the weather will do - a brilliant concept.
Preface to the Sixth Edition
How to use this book
General note to the reader
The Crossed Winds Rules
Explanation of terms used in the text
Facts about clouds
Beaufort Scale of wind force
1 Jet stream cirrus
2 Cirrus and cirrostratus
3 Warm front or occlusion approaching
4 Altostratus ahead of a warm front or occlusion
5 Imminent rain or snow
6 A front passes
7 Thundery sky
8 Thunderstorm
9 Warm sector weather
10 Sea and coastal fog
11 Showers
12 Air mass trough
13 Cumulonimbus
14 Quiet evening
15 Red sky at night
16 Cirrus foretelling improvement
17 Will it thunder?
18 Will it rain?
19 Fair weather cumulus
20 Cirrus revealing no change
21 Stratocumulus
22 Stratus
23 Altocumulus and cirrocumulus
24 Coastline clouds
Dr Simon Keeling has a Master of Science and a Doctorate from the University of Birmingham where he is an Honorary Lecturer. He has been a weatherman for ITV and BBC, and in 1997 he founded Weather Consultancy Services, a private weather forecasting company now supplying weather forecast to customers across the world.
Alan Watts, one-time professional meteorologist and enthusiastic sailor, spent considerable time studying wind changes and short-term alterations in the weather.
