- Paperback: 64 pages
- Publisher: Adlard Coles Nautical; 2nd New edition edition (30 April 2004)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0713668687
- ISBN-13: 978-0713668681
- Product Dimensions: 21.4 x 13 x 0.6 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 698,785 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"With a revised and updated text, along with new colour photographs and diagrams, this bestselling gem of a book will be invaluable to anyone participating in outdoor activities, from farming, gardening and walking to flying, sailing and fishing." --Angles Net (May 2011)
With new colour photographs and diagrams, this bestselling gem of a book will be invaluable to anyone participating in outdoor acticities --Yachting Life Magazine, July 1, 2011
"A BEST-selling gem of a book on weather forecasting first published 40 years ago is in the bookshops again with a fresh new look, revised and updated text and new colour photographs and diagrams...Invaluable for anyone who works (or plays) in the great outdoors, it will enable the user to foretell, with reasonable accuracy, whether it will rain or blow, not change much or perhaps clear up soon." --Towpath Walk Newspaper
"With a revised and updated text, along with new colour photographs and diagrams, this bestselling gem of a book will be invaluable to anyone participating in outdoor activities, from farming, gardening and walking to flying, sailing and fishing." --Anglers Net Book Review (May 2011) --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
With new colour photographs and diagrams, this bestselling gem of a book will be invaluable to anyone participating in outdoor acticities --Yachting Life Magazine, July 1, 2011
"A BEST-selling gem of a book on weather forecasting first published 40 years ago is in the bookshops again with a fresh new look, revised and updated text and new colour photographs and diagrams...Invaluable for anyone who works (or plays) in the great outdoors, it will enable the user to foretell, with reasonable accuracy, whether it will rain or blow, not change much or perhaps clear up soon." --Towpath Walk Newspaper
"With a revised and updated text, along with new colour photographs and diagrams, this bestselling gem of a book will be invaluable to anyone participating in outdoor activities, from farming, gardening and walking to flying, sailing and fishing." --Anglers Net Book Review (May 2011) --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
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"A BEST-selling gem of a book on weather forecasting first published 40 years ago is in the bookshops again with a fresh new look, revised and updated text and new colour photographs and diagrams...Invaluable for anyone who works (or plays) in the great outdoors, it will enable the user to foretell, with reasonable accuracy, whether it will rain or blow, not change much or perhaps clear up soon." Towpath Walk Newspaper "With a revised and updated text, along with new colour photographs and diagrams, this bestselling gem of a book will be invaluable to anyone participating in outdoor activities, from farming, gardening and walking to flying, sailing and fishing." Anglers Net Book Review (May 2011)
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77 of 79 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I found this book interesting but, for me, flawed in several respects. The book contains some very brief information on cold, warm and occluded fronts - what they mean and how they behave. It also gives you a very handy cross section of a front, and shows you where the cloud formations you can see pictured in the book are likely to occur in the front.
But really any background information which put the cloud photos into context ends there. Unless you know a reasonable amount about how weather 'works' and interrelates, this book ain't going to help you much. To get the most out of this book, you're going to have to have read a basic book on general 'weather' first. That's not really a criticism of this book which after all doesn't claim to be a general book on the weather, but just a warning that it's of limited use on its own...and that perhaps it would have been much better with just a little more contextual background information.
More seriously flawed are the photos themselves. You get a photo of, say, cirrus clouds and then a description of the clouds' telltale characteristics and what significance they have for the forthcoming weather: "notice the fallstreaks striating towards the west on the upper cirrostratus...". The trouble with this is there is a photo of a whole skyful of layer upon layer cloud...there is absolutely no indication of which part of the picture the description is referring to, just some simple numbered circles on the photos would be useful so you knew which part of the sky the description is referring to. It's a little like giving someone a 1:25,000 scale map and telling them to look at the 'church with a spire'...there are dozens of 'em.
Finally, there's no indication at what time of the day, nor which direction the photos were taken which is fairly important.
I think in summary, using this book you'll be able to identify a cloud formation and even stab at a decent forecast from it...but crucially YOU WON'T KNOW WHY.
28 of 29 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
A great pocket guide for those who like to get out and about in all weathers. I'm a biker and like to know whether to take my waterproofs and thermal gloves or if I can wear a lighter jacket etc. Hence my fascination with weather and predicting it's course.
This book has some lovely photos of typical clouds for particular weather formations. They're quite useful for predicting how a day will turn out if the previous day end with certain clouds or if the wind is in a particular direction.
A recommended read for hill walkers, bikers, sailors and farmers!
This book has some lovely photos of typical clouds for particular weather formations. They're quite useful for predicting how a day will turn out if the previous day end with certain clouds or if the wind is in a particular direction.
A recommended read for hill walkers, bikers, sailors and farmers!
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Instant Weather is something I got having read the Kindle edition and missed the wonderful colour photographs Yes it's good and easy to follow if you don't mind going back to the keys at the beginning a few times but I made it to the end now it sits on my desk at home and has been useful so far and so far hasn't let me down.
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