TOLEDO
Sail & Power Squadron

While not a course in weather, this seminar explains how just using your own senses can help you determine what conditions you will encounter where you are. By all means, a forecast is important. It will tell you what weather systems are headed your way, but they are challenged to tell exactly where and when conditions will change. Add your own observations and you have an extra edge. Add a couple of instruments and you can verify your observations.

 

The seminar explains weather systems, how to understand clouds and their changes, using changing wind direction, temperature, and pressure to hone in on emerging weather fronts. The seminar includes an excellent book Fundamentals of Weather written by the Canadian Power amd Sail Squadrons, and the McGraw-Hill On Board Weather Forecasting waterproof Captain’s Quick Guide to take aboard your boat.