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Mountain Weather: A Practical Guide for Hillwalkers and Climbers in the British Isles (Cicerone Techniques)
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Product Description
This book does exactly what its says in the title! helps walkers and climbers understand weather in the UK mountains. Helps you to develop the skills to interpret forecasts, understand weather maps, and read the weather so you can make important decisions about acitvities in the hills. Illustrated with weather maps and satellite imagery.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #176751 in Books
- Brand: Cicerone
- Published on: 2006-03-20
- Original language: English
- Binding: Paperback
- 160 pages
Editorial Reviews
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'This is the enlarged and updated third edition of a well-known book by a much respected meteorologist. There are some neat diagrams, with excellent photographs really relating to the text. It enables people, having got the general forecast, to make the best choice of routes. If you want to learn about mountain weather, as any sensible hill-walker or climber should, then this is as good a book as you'll find.' Irish Mountain Log / Winter 2006
About the Author
David Pedgley OBE BSc is a meteorologist now retired from the Natural Resources Institute, University of Greenwich, where he undertook research on windborne movement of insect pests to help improve crop yields in developing countries. He was formerly a weather observer, forecaster and instructor in the Meteorological Office; and he was also a Vice-President of the Royal Meteorological Society, editor of the Society's monthly popular magazine Weather and a founder of the Saturday discussion meetings for amateur meteorologists. A hillwalker for many years, he started the Society's field courses on mountain weather. Lecturer and author, he is married with four children.
Customer Reviews
Tells You Everything You Wanted to Know About Mountain Weather!
What a cracking little book. Remember all of that weather stuff you learnt at school and can't quite remember if you've got it right?
This book is a must for all hill walkers and mountaineers. It's split into three sections. Weather forecasts, well, explains about weather forecasts. Weather maps explains all of those funny lines and symbols.
But it is section 3 that is the most interesting, for it explains how mountains create their own weather - on the tops and in the valleys. Fascinating stuff.
I've pondered buying this for years. I wish I'd read it a long time ago.
