Study Guide for Bytown Brigantine Trainee Logbook

Level III - Watch Officer [Senior]

Appendix III-B

Meteorological Terms

Requirement of Level 3 Item 18.

 • barometric pressure: high, low, rising, falling, steady
 • weather systems: cold & warm  fronts, cloud formations found at the fronts
 • cloud formations: identify all cloud formations
 • types and causes of fog
 • foreasts
 • local stations
 • shipping warning signals
 • beaufort scale
 • wind direction in relation to weather systems
 • thunderstorms
 • visibility
 • temperature

 

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