Recreational : Weather Master

A stand alone course for those who are seeking a comprehensive understanding of the factors involved in world meteorology and weather routing for long distance or ocean passages.

The course outline covers:

• Causes of wind
• Air masses
• Atmospheric pressure
• Air circulation
• Coriolis Effect
• Polar fronts
• Depressions
• Anti-cyclones
• Warm fronts
• Cold fronts
• Ridges, troughs, squalls
• Effect of jet stream
• High pressure/ low pressure systems
• Frontal depressions
• Cloud types
• Buy Ballots law
• Sea /land breezes
• Types of fog
• Thunder and lightning
• The Beaufort scale
• Effects of friction
• Barometric pressure
• Sources of weather forecasts
• Gale warnings
• General synopsis
• Sea area forecast
• International weather map systems
• Tropical revolving storms
• Understanding hurricanes
• Tropical waves, depressions and storms
• Navigable semicircle
• Dangerous quadrant
• Significant wave heights
• Radio warnings