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Heavy Weather Avoidance and Route Design ReviewThis book forms an excellent basis for a "mental model" of upper level 500 mb contour charts and their relevance to surface weather, The initial explanatory chapters suffer from some murkiness in terminology: Are we talking about temperature, pressure, pressure surfaces, pressure "lines" etc.? But a careful reading will sort these terms out and will clarify the terminology in the reader's mind. The dynamic, three dimensional nature of the earth's atmosphere presents a difficult modelling problem for both the presenter and the mariner trying to derive information from the presentation that is useful to him. I would recommend this book as a worthy addition to any professional library, both for the commercial and the recreational mariner. It is both a good off-season study for the recreational boater and a practical on-board reference aid in interpreting weather information received.
The later chapters on weather routing and storm analysis are particularly valuable.
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Hurricane Watch: Forecasting the Deadliest Storms on Earth ReviewEver since I was a child trapped inside by the pouring rain as the remnants of Camille passed over East Tennessee, I have been fascinated by hurricanes. With that in mind, this book was hard to resist. Especially since I had spent many hours watching Dr. Sheets on television. It is pretty obvious though that Jack Williams did most of the writing and for those of us who are not that familiar with the science of meteorology that is a very good thing for this is a very complicated subject and dumbing down is exactly what I needed.
This book is not so much a book about major hurricanes as it is a history of the predicting of hurricanes. From Columbus to the present satellites and Doppler systems this book tells the story of man's attempts to guess what Mother Nature is up to. There is even a chapter about attempts to actually control hurricanes.
Even with the simple way the authors attempted to tell their story I was lost at times but not all too often. For a trained meteorologist this book would probably seem almost childish, but for the average person like myself it is just about right. I still don't completely understand everything about wind sheer, computer models, and latent heat but I am at least familiar with the terms now. From now on, as a hurricane approaches the U.S. coast and I sit there in front of the TV I will have a vague idea of how the computer models work and will know all about the Bermuda high.
The chapter I found the most interesting was the chapter about hurricane Andrew. That is the kind of thing I was actually looking for in this book but even though I only found one chapter of what I had been looking for, I still found this book to be highly informative, interesting, and well written. I imagine that Dr. Sheets could write an entire book on Andrew, and I wish he wouldHurricane Watch: Forecasting the Deadliest Storms on Earth Overview

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