RYA Yachtmaster Theory Course 2012 - 2013

RYA Yachtmaster Theory Class Lesson 14

Lesson Plan
Weather Recording and Forecasting

Plotting & Recording Conventions (Terms used in Forecasting).

Weather Forecast Recording.

Sea Area Forecast.

Inshore Waters Forecast.

Coastal Station Reports.

Weather Forecasting (Bringing it all together).

Geostrophic Wind Scales.

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RYA Yachtmaster Theory Course 2012 - 2013

RYA Yachtmaster Theory Class Lesson 13

Lesson Plan

Visibility

Factors Affecting Visibility

Mist & Fog

Radiation / Land Fog in Calm And Windy Conditions

Radiation Fog At Sea Formation And Dispersal

Advection Fog (Sea Fog) in Calm And Windy Conditions

Frontal Fog

Smog

Other Factors Affecting Visibility

Definitions of Visibility in Sea Area & Coastal Station Reports

Predicting Fog

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RYA Yachtmaster Theory Course 2012 - 2013

RYA Yachtmaster Theory Course Lesson 12

Lesson Plan
Low & High Pressure System Formation

Air Masses Influencing the UK

Polar Front & Jet Stream Winds

Formation of a Depression

Air Flows around a Low

Weather associated with a Low

High Pressure weather systems

Air flows around a High

Weather associated with a High

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RYA Yachtmaster Theory Course 2012 - 2013

RYA Yachtmaster Theory Class 11

Lesson Plan
Air Masses & Frontal Weather

Origin & Tracks of an Air Mass

Convergence & Divergence

Pressure Zones

Air Mass Winds

Polar & Artic Fronts

Air Mass Winds North Atlantic

Warm Fronts

Cold Fronts

Occlusions and Types of Occlusion

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