Weather Lore

Have you ever heard the saying:

 

Red sky at night, sailor's delight;

Red sky in morning, sailors take warning.

Did you ever wonder if there was any truth to it?  If you have, you're not the only one.  Weather affects each one of us, and everything in nature.  I gathered a few weather sayings, (wise tales/old wive's tales), and sought to find any truth to them.  The one's listed here are considered true.  As for the "Red sky at night", this is what I found:

 

A red or pink color in the evening sky is the result of light intermingling with dry dust particles, which indicates dry weather, is coming.  A sky that is gray in the evening means the atmosphere is heavy with water droplets that will probably fall the following day.

 

Crickets are particular thermometers; they chirp faster when the air is warm and slower when it's cold.  Count their chirps for fourteen seconds, then add forty, and you have the temperature of wherever the cricket is.

 

Sun or moon halos indicate a coming rain.  The halo indicates how far away the precipitation is.  (The larger, the closer.)

The halo is an indication of an approaching warm front and a long, slow rain will occur.

 

The higher the clouds the better the weather.

 

A cow with its tail to the west, makes weather the best.   A cow with its tail to the east, makes weather the least.

 

Sea gull, Sea gull, sit on the sand; It's a sign of a rain when you are at hand.

 

Geese (and other migrating birds) fly higher in fair weather than in foul.

 

When leaves show their backs, it will rain.

 

When the ditch offends the nose, look for rain and stormy blows.

 

When smoke descends, good weather ends.

 

So while you're enjoying your gardening this year, keep an eye out on your surroundings, maybe you will find some 'lore' yourself.