Description
Bring your weather knowledge to the next level
MWU’s Fundamentals Course is comprised of eight classes – thoughtfully designed to raise your weather iQ in a sequential process that combines insightful instruction and world class content. Every boater understands the importance of weather – now is your chance to make the commitment to take your weather knowledge to the next level with the help of best in the business.
Curriculum
- Clouds & Marine Weather
- Importance of Clouds
- How do clouds form?
- Cloud Classification
- Cloud Identification
- Short-term weather prediction using only clouds
- Clouds and winds around them
- Sucking Clouds
- Blowing Clouds
- Organization Clouds
- Cloud Lines – Convergence and divergence
- Cloud Streets
- Fronts
- Thunderstorms/Squalls
- Assessing the wind
- Characteristics of the Wind Direction
- Characteristics of the Wind Speed
- “It came out of nowhere”
- Stability
- Space and Time (Diurnal) Variation
- Mid-Latitude Weather Systems
- Highs and lows
- Basic weather map interpretation
- Conceptual model of low pressure (Cyclone Model)
- Practical examples
- Making a forecast from the weather map
- Satellite and Radar Interpretation
- Satellite
- Types of Satellite Images
- How to Access
- Identifying cloud types from satellite images
- Assessing the winds from clouds
- Radar
- How it works
- Cells vs Lines
- Local/Regional Wind
- Sea/Lake Breezes
- Land/Drainage Breezes
- Valley/Terrain Flow
- Downslope Winds
- Channeled Flow
- Weather Models
- What you need to know about how weather models work
- Why models can fail
- Ensemble models
- GRIB files
- The Internet & Marine Weather
- Sources
- Free
- Subscription
- Proper Use Demonstration
MWU Instructors
Peter Isler
FOUNDER
Chris Bedford
WEATHER COACH
