Best weather books according to redditors

So I did a little research and uh...this guy is a chemtrails guy?


https://columbusfreepress.com/article/caldeira-comes-clean-chemtrails


https://freepress.org/article/call-it-its-real-name-chemtrails-harvard-prof-calls-spraying-re-freeze-arctic


https://www.amazon.com/Star-Wars-Weather-Spectrum-Dominance/dp/0971043868


I mean, the Epstein stuff is already deep in conspiracy territory but this is making me feel like some people are actually losing it...

The book is Ladies' Home Journal Easy as 1-2-3 Warm Weather Cookbook. All the recipes are separated into menus for various dinners.

Here it is on Amazon and on AbeBooks

I like it a lot. Since it is about forecasting and not Atmospheric Science so much, lots of people find it more engaging. It gets pretty good reviews on amazon too


If you are interested in learning about meteorology, I highly recommend COMET modules Some are pretty esoteric, but things like Skew-T mastery are fantastic. They take a bit of time but they've been as helpful as some of my college classes.

Alard Cole's Heavy Weather Sailing, of course!

Charles Brooks also wrote a nice little book called Why the Weather and helped work on the International Cloud Atlas.

The cereal video is quite famous, too. :P

Hello - Glad to have you joining us as an atmospheric scientist! Can I ask where you are attending school? As for the reading, there are so many places to start. First off you should be well versed in mathematics, especially calculus topics like derivatives, integrals, and some basic differential equations knowledge. These things form the basis of our science.

One good book is the one used at my school for our ATMS100 class, and is co-authored by my department head. Here is a link http://www.amazon.com/SEVERE-AND-HAZARDOUS-WEATHER-INTRODUCTION/dp/0757517544

Here is another intro book http://www.amazon.com/Weather-Studies-Introduction-Atmospheric-Science/dp/1878220748

After you understand the basics you will tackle topics like Thermodynamics, Radiation, and Dynamics. Also I would HIGHLY recommend getting comfortable in a programming language (Python is a good starter) because as an atmospheric scientist it will be extremely helpful if you are able to ingest and process large volumes of weather data in order to analyze and gather info from it. I am about to graduate with a BS in atmos sci and I have already found a job.

My employers definitely need my weather knowledge as it is a very specific domain. But, on top of that, I have about 2 solid years of programming experience. Outside of my classwork I spent lots of time coding. A huge part of being a good engineer/atmospheric-scientist is being able to automate stuff with a programming language. This means that instead of having to make plots of pressure/temperature vs time by hand, I can write a program that will ingest millions of records and make thousands of graphs in a fraction of the time. Also I got familiar with web-dev and the apex of my learning was this ruby on rails app that plots weather forecasts. http://mos-dashboard.herokuapp.com. Having this little app definitely made me more employable. Plus, in the future, the integration of atmospheric science and programming is going to increase.

Here is a good place to start with Python http://www.learnpython.org

PS - feel free to message me if you have more questions.

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You may also like the Weather Forcasting Handbook by Tim Vasquez also, (well Anything by Tim Vasqauez from what I heard is great).
He also owns a weather forum that is visited by a good amount of experienced storm chasers and weather enthuses, stormtrack.org .
You also have https://www.meted.ucar.edu/index.php which was either linked to either on here or /r/freebies which offers free meteorology courses.

A Child's First Library of Learning?

Would-be naval architect here (turned aerospace engineer, they're surprisingly similar fields). Our dreams are not so different.

You absolutely need to read - and understand - Heavy Weather Sailing by Adlard Coles. This is regarded as the Bible of ocean-crossing small craft design and has been in print for about 40 years. It's quite heavy text, but you don't need to be a scientist to understand it, just remember not giving up on this book and reading as much as you can will keep you safe.

It starts off talking about the meteorology of storms, the physics of wind & wave formation, and once you understand how these things work it explains how competing designs and different charecteristics of the rig and hull cope with extreme weather, e.g. breaking waves pitchpoling a yacht, as well as fair-weather performance. I read it purely for interest, but I was 15 at the time, so it's really not too hard to follow.

I was going to put key points here, but it is absolutely impossible to tl;dr summarise everything your situation needs. If you can't do it yourself, do the smart thing and hire a designer with a good reputation to help you realise your dream - if going it alone, this book is mandatory required reading.

Overengineer things. Rigging wire a size or two larger than manufacturers' recommendation is more likely to come out of extreme situations unscathed, it's not unusual for blue-water sailors to carry an anchor a size or three over to be certain it will grip in a storm, etc. Read up on safety gear - EPIRBs and satellite radios are, imo, a must these days but it's not all flashy electronics - several spare 600-yard warps are useful in everything from drag in a storm to jury-rigging a rudder to towing someone else to safety. Consider different scenarios and how you'd cope - "the mast falls down and you're asleep", for instance, or "the fresh water tanks leak and there's none left in the middle of the Atlantic". Can you fix it alone? Tools - and the knowledge to use them to repair everything you own - will keep you safe.

Finally, I recommend an xpost to /r/sailing, they're a bit more active. Also find some forums dedicated for sailors (I like Scuttlebutt on yachtingmonthly.com, but there must be communities dedicated to blue-water sailing and self-builds) - you'll get much more detailed advice there. Good luck and don't give up!

PRAXIS I Math: My Private Tutor

Read this book:

Instant Weather Forceasting

Not to be trifled with! Try the Owens Valley on for size, in the Sierra Wave Project a glider was subjected to +/-15 Gs, ripped apart, the pilot bailed out, got a detached retina in one eye and with the other eye he saw chunks of the gilder sucked into the rotor cloud. Read "Exploring the Monster" to get the full details.

> OK, when you show me PROOF they ARE condensation based "con-trails"
>

http://i.imgur.com/H7FBIDR.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/9u9PIJX.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/ShyXbvK.jpg

If you are looking for additional references I would suggest:

The Book of Clouds: John A. Day
http://www.amazon.com/The-Book-Clouds-John-Day/dp/1402728131

Clouds and Weather: R.K Pilsbury
http://www.amazon.com/Clouds-weather-R-K-Pilsbury/dp/0713421029

A Field Guide to the Atmosphere (Peterson Field Guides)
http://www.amazon.com/Field-Guide-Atmosphere-Peterson-Guides/dp/0395976316

There are many other resources describing how planes create condensation trails, but this should be a good start.


> there's plenty of evidence of their chemical composition out there.
>

Are you talking about the balanced chemical equation for the formation of water vapour through the burning of hydrocarbons? If not, please provide the evidence you are talking about:

http://www.chacha.com/question/what-is-the-balanced-equation-for-the-compte-combustion-of-kerosene

> including from the us govt themselves, BUT you'd shoot that down too as some type of bullshit\
>

Please provide a link where the US Govt states that they are dumping chemicals that would appear as contrails.

> otherwise, go troll someone else :D

Not sure that this was necessary ...

I've been looking for this for months, but after I posted this I suddenly found it. Parade of Stories by Child Horizons.

Link: http://www.amazon.com/Parade-Stories-Horizons-Esther-Bjoland/dp/B000EDZLNY

This was essential reading on board our yacht. As a ten year old child, I remember being absorbed in this book down below, as our father took our violently pitching yacht through a horrible storm off the coast of France. Adlard Coles - Heavy Weather Sailing

Gripping stuff.