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title: understanding weatherfax
description: "Subtitle: a guide to forecasting the weather from radio and internet fax chartsAuthor: harris m.Publisher: sheridan houseISBN: 9781574092158"
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# understanding weatherfax

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Subtitle: a guide to forecasting the weather from radio and internet fax chartsAuthor: harris m.Publisher: sheridan houseISBN: 9781574092158

How do you turn the symbols on a weather chart into a meaningful forecast? Armed with "Understanding weatherfax" and a current weatherfax chart you have all of the essentials for making your own forecast, no matter you are in the world.

- Satellite images: equipment, software and how to receive live from satellites

- Interpreting early warming signs of storm development from satellite images

- Case studies on the 1991 "Perfect Storm" and the 1998 Sydney to Hobart Race

- Receiving equipment and software

- Interpreting synoptic chart features

- Personal forecasting

- World weather patterns

- Tracking and avoiding tropical storms

Edition: 2005