Sail Training Adventures
Professional Sailing Instruction, Sailing Adventures and Seminars
Marine Weather
Saturday March 22, 2025
0900-1630 EDT - $120.00
Stream on Zoom
Seminar Objective
To provide you with the knowledge, tools and thinking for independent decision-making on marine weather forecasting, route planning and heavy weather avoidance.
The GOAL = Marine weather self reliance
Includes digital version of course notes
Seminar Outline
The Marine Environment
What is Weather
The Atmosphere
Basic and Global Air Movement
Effect of Earths Axis and Coriolis Effect on Air Movement
Surface Pressure - Areas of High and Low Pressures
Measuring Pressure - The Barometer
Surface Pressure Map
Surface Pressure vs Wind Strength and Direction
Frontal Lows - Warm Front & Cold Front
Clouds - Descriptions and Relation to Fronts
Atmospheric Conditions Associated with Fronts
Backing and Veering Winds
Non Frontal Lows
Local Conditions - Effect of Topography on Weather
Tropical Squalls
Fog
Waves and Swells
Weather Forecasts
Obtaining and Deciphering Forecasts
Synoptic - Surface Charts
GRIB Files
Pilot charts
Heavy Weather
Route Planning