Learning more about weather

"Peter" wrote in message
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"Mike Rapoport" wrote

Severe Weather Flying by Newton

Mike
MU-2

One can learn as much as one wants to about weather interpretation -
there are countless books and websites which talk about atmospheric
behaviour. However I think the biggest problem is getting the data
which to interpret or perhaps interpreting the data which one can in
today's internet era. All the weather tutorial material I have seen is
the old-fashioned stuff which just talks and talks about how warm
fronts interact with cold fronts, etc, etc - what I feel is needed is
a tutorial which teaches, hands-on, how to get onto for example the
NOAA website and interpret the stuff that's on there.

If somebody did a course showing how to do this, I would gladly pay
for it. But I've never heard of one.



I tend to agree. Pilots really should have a course that amounts to a
"Practical Forecasting" course first, before (or even instead of) the
"Weather for Pilots" type of instruction that ground-school pretends to
provide.

Every so often I get an urge to try to assemble something, but then life
gets in the way...

Perhaps a CD such as: http://ww2010.atmos.uiuc.edu/(Gh)/cd.rxml may already
be doing it, anyway.

There are also a number of on-line University courses that seem to be of the
"practical forecasting" type, but I don't know if they get into it deeper
than we care to go.

At any rate, my suggestion is to look for something *in addition* to (and
other than) the standard "weather-for-pilots" sort of thing.

If you have the time and opportunity, take a University night class.