RE: [Paddlewise] Weather

Internet. But even among this select group, how many of you would actually
spend your hard earned cash on a class about weather for kayakers? Perhaps
some of you would. But I'm willing to bet it's not enough to justify the 

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>From someone who has yet to learn a lot(or a little) about weather, if I
were to pay for a course/seminar about weather, I would expect to come out
of it with something I could use to help me on the water.

I went to a couple of hour long sessions this summer at the Atlantic Coast
Sea Kayak Symposium in Castine, Maine and came away with nothing useful.
The sessions were given by a local meteorologist and he started with weather
front formations, ciruclations, a lot of theory, etc.  While it was mildly
interesting, it had nothing to do with my reason for attending.

I don't want to be a meteorologist, all I want to know is if I'm paddling
into deep sh*t.  I want to be able to look at the sky and/or the water and
have some indication of what kind of wind and weather lies ahead in the next
couple of hours.

To be fair, there's only so much you can cram into a classroom session and
they always want to start with the basics.

I have high hopes for the Instant Weather (and wind) Forecasting books
suggested earlier on the list and will be ordering them after the holidays.
Something simple I can benefit from with a minimum amount of effort.  'An
Idiot's Guide To Weather Forecasting' :-).

Just to show I *am* interested in a weather course, here's a place offering
courses in Miami and Los Angeles: http://www.weatherstrategies.com/.
Unfortunately they're both a little far for me.
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