RE: [Paddlewise] weather prediction

The second edition of Meteorology for Mariners (the most recent available,
I believe) was published in 1967 by Great Britain's Meteorological Office.
At least one copy is held in the Williams Library here at Texas A&M
University at Galveston (Texas Maritime Academy); and at least one more on
the main campus of Texas A&M University (Evans Library in College Station).
 You may request a copy to borrow by going through your local public
library who could also potentially help you locate copies closer to where
you are.

If you'd like to see a selection of titles on marine weather, try a key
word search on "marine meteorology" in our library catalog.  We have 57
titles on this topic.  Go to the Web address
ovid.tamu.edu/webpac/catalogs/, select "search catalogs", then Texas A&M
University at Galveston.

Plenty of reference works about - application and utility are something else.

Natalie

P.S.  Yes, I do paddle sea kayaks myself!

Nathaniel Bowditch is the author of American Practical Navigator, the basic
text for maritime navigation students.  It has about 10 pages devoted to
weather and pictures the basic cloud groups and gives a description of what
weather will likely follow x hours after you see them.  

At 09:04 AM 12/9/98 -0800, you wrote:
>
>Acording to Amazon.com, the book "Meteorology for Mariners" is out of print.
>Does anyone on the list have other meteorology books to recommend?  I used
>to fly airplanes and feel like I have a pretty good understanding of the
>fundamentals, but I would like to study this topic from a stricly marine
>point of view.
>
>--Tim 
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From:	WILAX_at_aol.com [SMTP:WILAX_at_aol.com]
>> Sent:	Wednesday, December 09, 1998 8:36 AM
>> To:	paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net
>> Subject:	Re: [Paddlewise] weather prediction
>> 
>> 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.
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