Backpacker Magazine's Predicting Weather

Forecasting, Planning, And Preparing

Lisa Ballard

• Publisher: Falcon Guides
• Year: 2010
• eBook ISBN: 9780762766109
• Edition: 1

Backpacker Magazine's Weather informs readers about how weather happens, how to predict and recognize weather patterns, identify cloud formations and know what they mean, develop weather awareness from basic meteorological concepts, and more. This handy pocket-sized guide is 96 pages, includes two popouts, and incorporates color photos, charts, and illustrations as needed throughout the interior.

Table of contents

• Introduction
• Chapter One: Weather Basics
• Chapter Two: Reading the Sky
• Chapter Three: Figuring Out Fronts
• Chapter Four: Dew, Frost, and Fog
• Chapter Five: Local Effects
• Chapter Six: Beat the Chill
• Chapter Seven: Cool It
• Chapter Eight: Weathering Wind
• Chapter Nine: Extreme Weather
• Chapter Ten: Lore or Likely