Wind Against Tide – A Sign of Choppy Water
The yacht is on a ‘swing mooring’ and will swing with the tide. This shows us that the water is flowing from right to left.…
The yacht is on a ‘swing mooring’ and will swing with the tide. This shows us that the water is flowing from right to left.…
My thanks to Kareem Dieng and his family for reading my books. That’s Kareem with The Secret World of Weather, ‘Pops’ reading Lost Art of…
There was a 22 Degree halo around the moon a couple of nights ago. This is a sign of cirrostratus, a high veil of icy…
A wind shadow is a place where the wind doesn’t reach. There is a calm, sheltered zone on the downwind side of all obstacles, a…
One of the great joys of natural navigation is that it intrigues such a wide variety of people, something it shares with food. We can’t…
I’ve been faced with an interesting weather challenge recently. I needed to take a sail off my boat for maintenance. This is something I can…
I walked out this morning into a white and frosty world to discover lots of interesting patterns in the land. Two questions: What direction are…
Have a good study of the picture above. Something looks out of place, but what is it? It is tempting to think that this snowy…
There is plenty of snow on this tree stump, but very little nearby, why? The stump means that the tree that was once there has…