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Understanding Weatherfax | 
 enlarge | Author: Mike Harris
Publisher: Sheridan House
Category: Book
List Price: $19.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 293593
Media: Paperback
Edition: 2nd
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 117
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 8.3 x 5.3 x 0.3
ISBN: 1574092154
Dewey Decimal Number: 551.630284
EAN: 9781574092158
ASIN: 1574092154
Publication Date: September 30, 2005
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Product Description
How do you turn the symbols on a weather chart into a meaningful forecast? Armed with this book and a current weatherfax chart you will have all the essentials for making your own forecast no matter where you are in the world. Understanding Weatherfax explains: Sources of weatherfax images; Receiving equipment and software; Types of weatherfax charts; Interpreting synoptic chart features; World weather patterns; Personal forecasting; Tropical storms-their formation, tracking and avoidance. An appendix lists worldwide fax stations and their operating frequencies, call signs and transmission schedules. New for Second Edition: Satellite Images - equipment, software and how to receive live images from satellites Interpreting early warning signs of storm development from satellite images Case studies on the 1991 Perfect Storm and the 1998 Sydney to Hobart Race
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Really great book, part of the whole picture May 17, 2007
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
I bought this book in preparation for an advanced mariner's meteorology course, and could not have made this comment without having first gained that higher level of knowledge.
This is a suberb book. It provides superb information about the weather fax, including an excellent and easily portable manual for the various symbols. It has two areas for improvement:
1) It sticks to the two-dimensional depiction of weather that is common to the average person. Although there are a couple of illustrations showing altitude, the author could easily have put in a few pages on the rotation of the earth, the 500 mb level, and how weather on the surface cannot be understood without underestanding what is happening at the 18,000 level. As my instructor put it, the high-level troughs are the chicken that hatches the surface level (scrambled) egg.
2) It does not make the connection, at least that I could see, between the vital importance of making your own observations at 00 and 12 Zulu, so that when you finally receive the weather fax six or seven hours later, you can compare reality with what was provided. This also applies to forecasts--you can keep them, compare your own observations as the time passes, and get a sense of the difference.
Add the above, and read "Mariner's Guide to the 500-Millibar Chart" by Joe Stenkiewicz and Lee Chesneau, and Google for to find his web site, and you'll have all you need to move to the better three-dimensional interactive viewing of weather and weather charts.
I also recommend The Weather Wizard's Cloud Book: A Unique Way to Predict the Weather Accurately and Easily by Reading the Clouds
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