Weather Lore

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Weather Lore

• Forecasts that Rhyme or
• The truth behind weather limericks

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"Red Sky at night, sailor's delight.  Red sky in
the morning, sailor take warning."
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"Mare's tails and mackerel scales make tall ships
take in their sails."
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"Clear moon, frost soon."
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"A year of snow, a year of plenty.
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"Halo around the sun or moon, rain or snow soon."
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"Rainbow in the morning gives you fair warning."
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"When the stars begin to huddle, the earth will
soon become a puddle."
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Geography and Weather

• Here are a few, by authors of obvious standing,
  that were no doubt written in different places.
• "Fair weather cometh out of the north."--Job
• "The north wind bringeth forth rain."--Proverbs
• "Take care not to sow in a north wind or to graft
  and inoculate when the wind is in the
  South."--Pliny
• "The north wind is best for sowing seed, the
  south for grafting." --Worledge, 1669

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Takakkaw Falls
Rainbows can often be seen in the spray and mist
coming from larger waterfalls, as here at
Takakkaw Falls, Canada.
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Noah's Thanksoffering (c.1803) by Joseph Anton
Koch. Noah builds an altar to the Lord after
being delivered from the Flood God sends the
rainbow as a sign of his covenant (Genesis 8-9).
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Refraction
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Internal Reflectance and Refraction