How to Navigate Using the Upper Winds and Clouds
I have written in the past about the basics of using the weather to navigate. Here I’d like to offer a couple of tips to…
Tag: wind direction
Adventure Sports Podcast
I recently did a podcast interview with Mason Gravley of the Adventure Sports Podcast in the US. (Interview begins about 5.40 mins in.) There are…
Evolving Views
With bumps on the road, hopefully each year we grow more enlightened in our view of nature and our relationship with it. But there is…
Natural Navigation with the Tuareg in the Libyan Sahara
The following article by Tristan Gooley was published in Navigation News in March 2010. My research to date has failed to uncover another soul who…
When a Low Pressure Goes Through
There have some intense winter low pressure systems barrelling onto UK shores recently, going by the name of Storm Angus. Below are some images that…
The Direction Ducks Land
My thanks to my fellow Fellows at the Royal Institute of Navigation for drawing my attention to some research that slipped past me a few…
Interconnectedness
When developing an understanding of nature, one of the most exciting moments comes when the pieces start to join up. Take the scene in the…
Using Wind Turbines for Natural Navigation, Weather Forecasting and Surf Reports
A guest blog post today from John Hudson of John Hudson Survival. “I live and work in Cornwall. Our granite peninsular juts out into the…
Soundscapes and Smellscapes
You know those times when you open your map and the wind catches it and you curse and then you open it again, only this…
Windvane Self-Steering
Although microchips have a childlike tendency to steal our attention away from almost anything else, I am not against technology itself. Once we have steeled…
Classic Cold Front
A cold front is the leading edge of a mass of cold air as it displaces a warmer mass of air at ground level. Cold…
Stargazing Weather
A blog of two halves for you today. Late September can bring some of the best early evening experiences for those who enjoy looking upwards.…
Leaning Telegraph Poles
My thanks to Richard Webber for sending in this photo. The telegraph poles in this picture are leaning from the southwest to the northeast. This…
The Voyage of the Beagle
One of the first things that Charles Darwin discovered, during his epic travels on board the Beagle, was a dramatic natural navigation clue. Darwin was…
Frosty Wind Shadow
The recent cold snap brought by northerly winds left the first frost across the south of England. The southern side of this chimney was sheltered…
The First Frost
The northerly winds were carrying high cirrus and contrails down towards the coast this morning. They have brought colder air, as forecast yesterday. This gave…
Brighton in a Gale
I was in Brighton yesterday afternoon and the coast was being hit hard by a southerly gale. When the wind is this strong it is…
Natural Navigational Riches Courtesy of Gustave Flaubert
The wind brings with it the character of the land, or water, it passes over. It adopts signature scents and temperatures and if the land…
Changing Winds
During a short outdoor navigation course yesterday, nature once again enjoyed mocking me a little. While discussing methods of using the wind to navigate, I…