Wemcast

In this episode Medical Director Dr Will Duffin welcomes back The Natural Navigator Tristan Gooley to share insights from his latest book ‘The Secret World of Weather’.    They discuss: Early 19th-century technology and attempts at weather forecasting and what happened to Admiral Robert Fitzroy when he first attempted to predict the weather…. Why ‘big weather’ that is forecast on modern supercomputers doesn’t match the weather that we actually experience at ground level. The three key cloud families, how to spot them and what they can tell you about local weather. Reading a cumulus cloud for signs of rain. Local winds and rebel winds. What shapes them and why what we experience at ground level can be very different from what is forecast. The best and worse trees to shelter from a storm under. Putting it all into practice - on a wild camp on Dartmoor do you sleep up high on a Tor or down low in the Valley and why? Tristan’s thoughts on polymathy in contrast to ultra-specialisation. How Tristan has bl