Yesterday marked the end of Climatology topic in Meteorology. Around the world in 8 days, that was what my instructor said before he began the classes of Climatology. Here is a list subtopics that we studied:


1) North Atlantic
2) North West Europe
3) Mediterranean
4) Persian Gulf
5) Monsoons
6) Indian Sub-continent
7) Far East
8) Australiasia
9) East Africa
10) West Africa
11) South America

It's not easy to master this subject. There are many factors to consider before we can get to correct answer. Example, for a route from Singapore to Tokyo via Hong Kong in the month of January, we have to understand that January is winter season in the Northern Hemisphere.

Land is colder than sea during winter. Thus, the surface pressure on the land is greater than sea surrounding it. Wind will blow from high pressure regions to lower pressure regions.
The bigger the land mass, causes a larger temperature difference between the land and sea. So where is the biggest land mass in Northern Hemisphere?

Siberia.

Hence, surface winds will blow out from Siberia in an clockwise manner towards Japan, down to Philipines, China, further down south to Malaysia and Singapore.

This is why we have North East Moonsoon between January and May generally and the coastal areas of Terengganu and Kelantan will have a very bad weather. Thunderstorm showers.

The explanation above is just a general view on surface wind and weather. I still haven't touched on upper winds conditions, clouds, turbulence and icing. Don't worry, I won't elaborate any further cuz it's just too much.

Out of 38 questions is Meteorology, there will be at most 6 questions on the topic of Climatology. Obviously it is risky to just ignore those questions and concentrate on other 32 to pass this bloody subject. Seniors have advised us not to rely too much on the worksheets given by the instructors because the question trend has changed since Batch 17. All the CA6 papers are set in UK, so exam result will probably take a month or so to process I think.



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