While you may master playing one or more musical instruments during your lifetime, you may never write a single line of music. Similarly, you may never know enough meteorology to forecast the weather, but you can learn enough to be a safer pilot. Whether you are starting from scratch as a student pilot or you’ve logged thousands of hours, this will be the book you continue to reference until you decide to retire from flying. It covers a gamut of aviation weather topics including the ins and outs of the most critical weather guidance you may utilize when planning a cross country flight. As an added bonus, it provides the most comprehensive primer available on how to correctly use the Skew-T log (p) diagram as supplemental weather guidance. 
 
Even though some of the concepts and dialog presented in this book are quite challenging even for the most seasoned pilot, they are born out of the fundamental properties of our atmosphere. A thermodynamic chart such as the Skew-T log (p) diagram is clearly the best kept secret in aviation. Specifically, it allows you to “drilldown” over a particular location to identify or describe adverse weather better in time and space than any other single chart or diagram assuming you know how to unlock its plentiful secrets. Lastly, this book is written by an experienced flight instructor who is also an expert in teaching aviation weather.