Mountain Weather - A Guide to Understanding the UK's weather

A guidebook to help walkers and climbers understand weather in the UK mountains. Helps you to develop the skills to interpret forecasts, understand weather maps, and read the weather so you can make important decisions about acitvities in the hills. Illustrated with weather maps and satellite imagery.

'This is the enlarged and updated third edition of a well-known book by a much respected meteorologist.

There are some neat diagrams, with excellent photographs really relating to the text. It enables people, having got the general forecast, to make the best choice of routes.

If you want to learn about mountain weather, as any sensible hill-walker or climber should, then this is as good a book as you'll find.'

(Irish Mountain Log / Winter 2006)

'Written with hill walking and similar outdoor activities in mind, the writing is aimed at increasing the understanding and weather knowledge of the enthusiastic hillwalker; it may be read as a book (and initially it should be) and then used as a convenient reference text for particular weather situations thereafter.

Some of the weather scenariors described are favourable for days out in the hills but the majority deal with bad weather situations or days when the weather starts good but deteriorates as time goes on so that unprepared hillwalkers may be caught out in worsening conditions for which they are not equipped.

An excellent guide, which should be essential reading for all those who venture out to the hills. As with previous editions, this remains small enough to be conveniently packed in any rucksack for easy reference.'

(Weather / December 2007)