Reading Weather

The Field Guide to Forecasting the Weather

Jim Woodmencey

• Publisher: Falcon Guides
• Year: 2022
• eBook ISBN:
  9781493067107
• Edition: 3

Reading Weather provides a quick and simple way to understand how the atmosphere works, how to interpret and use weather forecasts before venturing outdoors, and also how to make your own forecast in the field by observing the changes in the weather. This fully updated and revised reference will arm you with the meteorological knowledge necessary to make good decisions on whether to proceed or retreat in the face of a storm. Also included are helpful definitions, tables, and simplified graphics of common weather features.

Table of contents

• Acknowledgments
• Preface: The Nature of the Beast
• 1. Weather Basics: Temperature, Pressure, Humidity, and Wind
• 2. Highs, Lows, Fronts, and Storms
• 3. Understanding Weather Forecasts
• 4. Summer Weather Problems
• 5. Winter Weather Problems
• 6. Regional Weather Problems
• 7. Cloud Watching
• 8. Weather Tools
• 9. Field Forecasting
• 10. Decision Making: “Go” or “No Go” Forecasting
• Afterword: Some Final Weather Wisdom
• Appendix: Resources
• About the Author