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• How to Read a Weather Map — Pressure, Fronts and What the Clouds Will Do
  Synoptic charts look like scribbles until you learn four symbols. Then you can forecast the next twelve hours better than most phone apps.
• How a Weather Forecast Is Made — From Balloon to Supercomputer
  A forecast is a physics experiment the size of a planet: millions of measurements, one impossible equation, and a supercomputer that runs the atmosphere forward before the atmosphere gets there. Here is the full assembly line behind tomorrow's "70% chance of rain," and why it is both better than you think and never perfect.
• A Field Guide to Cloud Species: Ten Forms and What Each One Promises
  You already read the sky a little — most of us do. This guide names ten cloud forms precisely, explains what each says about the air above you, and turns "it looks cloudy" into a forecast you can make yourself.