weather briefings

I’m embarrassed by my ignorance on this. I’ve been working around it since online weather briefings became a thing. On any graphical depiction of weather, there will be wind direction flags, with barbs corresponding to wind velocity. Sometimes, the barbs are on the downwind side, so a flag...

I used to struggle a lot with weather briefings and understanding which one to use, when to use them, and how to use them. I finally figured it out, and realized that it was pretty simple. I wrote this blog post to help anyone else understand it if they are having problems...