This is self-study course. In order to get ASA certification you have to take written exam any time when ready.

This course covers all aspects of practical marine weather, starting from the very basics and ending with all you need to plan your voyages ‹ or weekend outings ‹ safely and efficiently taking into account the weather.
This is intended to be a practical course that will indeed affect your decision making when planning and underway. We only cover those aspects of the "theory" that will help us with this goal.
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Topics include:

Radio sources of weather and how to interpret them

Basic principles of Highs and Lows ‹ ridges and troughs

Weather maps: what kinds, how to get them, how to read them.

All about barometers

Fronts, squalls, storms, and hurricanes

Tropical versus extratropical cyclones

Sides of a storm and storm avoidance

Cloud ID and interpretation

Fog ‹ sea fog and radiation fog

Global winds ‹ prevailing westerlies,trade winds, doldrums, monsoons, roaring forties, screaming fifties, polar easterlies

Pacific High, Aleutian Lows, and counterparts around the world

Local winds and weather ‹ Puget Sound, Juan de Fuca, Pacific Coast

How to use barometer, wind shifts, and clouds for shipboard forecasting

Waves and swells, significant wave height, sea state forecasting

Beaufort scale

Winds and terrain ‹ land and sea breezes, shoreline wind shifts, drainage winds, channeled winds, convergence zones

How to predict wind shifts inland and at sea

Use of the internet for weather study and planning

Prerequisite: None

Total Course Price: $200
Passport Sailing Club Members $100

ASA Certification: ASA 119 Marine Weather Standard

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