For all those who are out and about in the great outdoors, the weather plays an important role. It often determines the success or failure of an undertaking.
This SAC handbook helps to plan with the weather, to interpret weather phenomena, to assess their effects and to deal with them. It provides hikers and mountaineers with basic knowledge in a compact form about:

• weather in general
• typical phenomena on weather fronts and in high and low pressure areas
• the effects of the most important main weather situations in the Alps
• the preparation and use of weather maps and weather forecasts
• application of simple weather rules
• behaviour in case of weather-related hazards
• climate change and its effects on mountain sports.