The ability to correctly read and predict the weather remains a fundamental skill for all navigators. The Starpath Weather trainer is a revolutionary, easy-to-use computer teaching tool and resource that quickly gives you the working skills that would normally take years to acquire. Its scope is from basics for the beginner to advanced topics for the professional. You will learn to use a barometer to its full potential, recognize clouds and their meaning, and how to turn these observations into a dynamic picture of existing and impending weather.

It covers everything from "red sky at night" to real time maps and MSI via INMARSAT--a graphically operated, easy to use computer course that teaches practical marine weather as well as providing numerical resources and schedules needed for weather operations underway. It includes worldwide radiofacsimile broadcasts schedules with explanation of each type of map available, and tactical use of map information. A thorough, illustrated glossary is hyper-linked to an extensive set of practice questions and articles on special topics. It includes a cloud atlas with code explanations. Further explanation is given of shipboard observations of natural signs and how to use them for forecasting, including thorough sea state descriptions, and reporting conventions.