Hi all,

I'm very new to this whole weather thing. Just got my first weather
station, and as you can imagine it's a cheap wireless one :-)

Now as a newbie - can someone recommend a book or two with good reliable
weather info. Simple ones - like how to read the weather - pressure and
it's effect and meaning, you (hopefully) get my drift.

And before anyone asks - yes I've googled - but there is so much conflicting
info out there I'd thought about asking the knowledgeable people on this
group.

Cheers

Ian

Now as a newbie - can someone recommend a book or two with good reliable
weather info. Simple ones - like how to read the weather - pressure and
it's effect and meaning, you (hopefully) get my drift.

Hi Ian,
take a look at the Martin Rowley's UK Sci Weather FAQ at
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/booty.weather/FAQ/5A.htm

best regards,
Alan

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Astraman wrote in message
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:Now as a newbie - can someone recommend a book or two with good reliable
:weather info. Simple ones - like how to read the weather - pressure and
:it's effect and meaning, you (hopefully) get my drift.

Book list in the uk.sci.weather FAQ might be of interest

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/booty.weather/uswfaqfr.htm - Section 5A

Colin Youngs
Brussels

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|| Now as a newbie - can someone recommend a book or two with good
|| reliable weather info. Simple ones - like how to read the weather -
|| pressure and it's effect and meaning, you (hopefully) get my drift.
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| Book list in the uk.sci.weather FAQ might be of interest
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| http://homepage.ntlworld.com/booty.weather/uswfaqfr.htm - Section 5A
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| Colin Youngs
| Brussels

Hi Colin & Alan,

Thanks for that - off to have a look.

Cheers

Ian

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Colin Youngs Slid in and muttered:

| Astraman wrote in message
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|| Now as a newbie - can someone recommend a book or two with good
|| reliable weather info. Simple ones - like how to read the
weather -
|| pressure and it's effect and meaning, you (hopefully) get my drift.
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| Book list in the uk.sci.weather FAQ might be of interest
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| http://homepage.ntlworld.com/booty.weather/uswfaqfr.htm - Section
5A
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| Colin Youngs
| Brussels

Hi Colin & Alan,

Thanks for that - off to have a look.


.... of that lot, try 5A.15: available at my local bookshop and probably
a good 'starter' for your purposes.

Martin.


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FAQ & Glossary for uk.sci.weather at:-
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/booty.weather/uswfaqfr.htm

You can't go far wrong by starting with 'The Weather of Britain' by Robin
Sterling, an excellent read.

Regards

Peter.

I've recently used two books, not mentioned in the FAQ. I would
recommend these only to a subset of newbies, depending on their background:

Roland B. Stull: "Meteorology for Scientists and Engineers: A Technical
Companion Book to C. Donald Ahrens' Meteorology Today"
Personally I find this a tad too much "American textbook style" but the
engineers I work with, like it.

Environment Canada: "AWARE The atmosphere, the weather and flying"
This is also available as a website, and both in French and English !
http://www.msc-smc.ec.gc.ca/education/aware/index_e.cfm

On Wed, 05 Jan 2005 22:13:24 GMT, Astraman wrote in
. uk

I'm very new to this whole weather thing. Just got my first weather
station, and as you can imagine it's a cheap wireless one :-)

Now as a newbie - can someone recommend a book or two with good reliable
weather info. Simple ones - like how to read the weather - pressure and
it's effect and meaning, you (hopefully) get my drift.

And before anyone asks - yes I've googled - but there is so much conflicting
info out there I'd thought about asking the knowledgeable people on this
group.

In addition to material already suggested, there is quite a lot of material
online now. Here is one such course Developed by the Department of
Atmospheric Sciences (DAS) at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
I'm not sure the level will be quite right but still worth looking at.

http://ww2010.atmos.uiuc.edu/(Gl)/guides/mtr/home.rxml

And another from St Andrews

http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/~dib2/climate/lectures.html

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Mike 55.13°N 6.69°W Coleraine posted to uk.sci.weather 06/01/2005 22:21:25 UTC