Lt. Commander John Tatom, U. S. Navy, was for several years the Aerological Officer of Fleet Air
Wing FOUR of the Pacific Fleet. He had flown in and studied the Aleutian weather, and used his
experience to write a pamphlet for those pilots who would fly in the WWII Aleutian weather. The
introductory was written by L. E. Gehres, Commodore, U. S. Navy, Commander, Fleet Air Wing Four.
As Tatom states, "Aleutian weather has been widely publicized since the outbreak of WWII. In
numerous magazine and newspaper articles and over the radio we have heard that the Aleutian area
is the home of one of the largest "lows" of the northern hemisphere, that here is the breeding
place of the storms, and that here exist the icy gales and the perpetual fogs.
I think you will enjoy reading this pamphlet, and I would like to thank my wife, Nadine, for beating out
the competition on eBay for this wonderful father's day present...which I am delighted to share with
you.
To view this document, you must have a PDF Reader application installed on your system. This document’s
file size is 34.6 MB as it has been scanned at 150 dpi for better print resolution, and I've retained
the colors of the document as well. While you can certainly download and save it to your hard drive, if
you are running a 28kb modem it might take you around 3 hours to do so. You can, however, choose to view
each page, one at a time, served from our web server to your browser. The download time per page depends
upon the speed of your modem (here's where a broadband modem, such as cable or DSL, comes in handy),
your computer, and the page you choose to view. You can click on the "Bookmarks" tab and navigate to
specific pages in this document. To download and view the document now, click on the book cover:
Weather notes for pilots
Summer Fogs and winter winds of
the aleutian islands
(and how to fly despite them)
Originally Published 4 July 2001
Weather notes for pilots
Summer Fogs and winter winds of
the aleutian islands
(and how to fly despite them)
Lt. Commander John Tatom, U. S. Navy, was for
several years the Aerological Officer of Fleet Air
Wing FOUR of the Pacific Fleet. He had flown in and
studied the Aleutian weather, and used his
experience to write a pamphlet for those pilots who
would fly in the WWII Aleutian weather. The
introductory was written by L. E. Gehres,
Commodore, U. S. Navy, Commander, Fleet Air Wing
Four. As Tatom states, "Aleutian weather has been
widely publicized since the outbreak of WWII. In
numerous magazine and newspaper articles and over
the radio we have heard that the Aleutian area is
the home of one of the largest "lows" of the
northern hemisphere, that here is the breeding
place of the storms, and that here exist the icy
gales and the perpetual fogs.
I think you will enjoy reading this pamphlet, and I
would like to thank my wife, Nadine, for beating
out the competition on eBay for this wonderful
father's day present...which I am delighted to
share with you.
To view this document, you must have a PDF Reader
application installed on your system. This
document’s file size is 34.6 MB as it has been
scanned at 150 dpi for better print resolution, and
I've retained the colors of the document as well.
While you can certainly download and save it to
your hard drive, if you are running a 28kb modem it
might take you around 3 hours to do so. You can,
however, choose to view each page, one at a time,
served from our web server to your browser. The
download time per page depends upon the speed of
your modem (here's where a broadband modem, such as
cable or DSL, comes in handy), your computer, and
the page you choose to view. You can click on the
"Bookmarks" tab and navigate to specific pages in
this document. To download and view the document
now, click on the book cover:
Originally Published 4 July 2001