Mastering the weather

Basic understanding of weather is so important whether you are a weekend warrior or an Olympic campaigner. So first we need to understand some basic terminology:

Stability is about thermal mixing, whether the wind is going up and down. This is not the same as a shifty wind. The wind can be very stable (no vertical mixing) and change direction a lot or can be very unstable (lots of vertical mixing) and come from the same direction all day. More on this later.

is about an area on the water where there is more or less wind, for example behind a large building there may always be less wind because the wind rises to go over the building or