Study your clouds! Clouds, clouds,clouds. They tell all. I took meteo courses in "the academy" in prep for Merchant Marine licensing. The teacher, a legend, named THOR would always start the class by asking "what kind of clouds do we have today?". You can pretty much figure out a lot...especially what the next 6 hours holds. If you combine cloud obs with a surface pressure analysis and 500mB analysis from the web, you can see how fronts are steered and that will tell you about what to expect tor wind, waves etc. I recommend a book called Meteorology for Mariners. Its a text book that you don't really have to concentrate on. The authors name escapes me but e-mail me privately if you are interested. *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.gasp-seakayak.net/paddlewise/ ***************************************************************************Received on Wed Dec 09 1998 - 08:39:12 PST
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