Self-Paced Courses – Introduction to Weather
$75 Click here now to take this course
If you’d like to book the full navigation course, which includes (with Navigation) Weather, Passage Planning, and Col Regs – at a discounted price Click here.
More details below:
This workshop forms part of our Navigation Qualification. It’s a great introduction and foundation to weather
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What you get:
- Unlimited support via phone or email
- Video presentations taking you through:
- Introduction to weather
- What is weather?
- What causes weather?
- Trade winds
- Clouds
- Synoptic charts
- Isobars
- Highs and lows
- Cyclones/Tropical revolving storms: development and warning signs: action
- Ridges, troughs, frontal depressions
- Warm and cold fronts, occluded fronts: what does this mean to us?
- Jet streams
- Line squalls
- Local weather patters
- Storm surge
- Synoptic charts – forecast and a case study
- Barometer
- Pressure and wind strength
PLUS
7 QUIZZES to test your knowledge step-by-step
21 VIDEOS, sit back and watch and learn
CHECKLIST – Cyclone Preparation (download)
ARTICLE/PHOTOS – Clouds
ARTICLE – Interpret, adjust, prepare: forecasting
TIPS/TRICKS – what we learned to watch for with over 20 years on the water
DISCOUNTED BOOK: Understand Weather – A Mariner’s Guide
If you’d like to book the full navigation course, which includes (with Navigation) Weather, Passage Planning, and Col Regs – at a discounted price Click here.
OR just book the Weather section for now – $75 Take this course
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More information:
Sailing the world we relied on WeatherFax for our weather. For over 20 years we studied synoptic charts together with local forecasting.
Here is a bit more information on Synoptic charts: Click here
Here’s one story as to why you must constantly monitor the weather
Do you understand storms: Click here.