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Radar & Satellite Weather Interpretation for Pilots

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This book needs color pictures. The whole premise is to help pilots learn how to decipher sat. and radar images, but you can't tell much about the example pictures due to their quality and their lack of color. However, pilots really need to know this stuff, so something is better than nothing. Buy the used version - not worth "full price."

I borrowed this book from our local library and I like it so much I am ordering it. I am adding books to my library of meteorology, one at a time. Not being a meteorologist, there are of course upper limits on what I can understand or wish to learn. Fluid dynamics with differential equations is one of them.
This book is written for pilots. i am not a pilot but enjoy the mechanics of flying-approaches, frequencies, navigating, planes, airport administration, etc. Weather is important to pilots and Lankford devotes 8 chapters to it. See, what I have discovered is, every author explains a subject in a different way. Lankford's explanations of fronts, air masses, clouds, bring a new perspective for me. His three chapters-3-on satellite images and interpretation are unique and are alone worth the price of the book. He has some appendix chapters, but they are of little interest to me.

So, I highly recommend this book to pilots and weather "enthusiasts", because it gets hard to find information that is approachable
and not graduate level tombs.