Weather predictions are difficult, even for professional meteorologists who use accurate equipment and satellite data. However, our ancestors were able to predict changes in the weather without hydrometers and geostationary satellites. Some signs have not lost their relevance until now.
Instructions
Step 1
Folk omens can be divided into two large groups. The first will include physical and biological phenomena, explainably associated with a change in the weather, for example, the appearance of frost on trees in winter indicates an imminent warming. The second group includes those that are based only on long-term observations of ancestors: the September thunder, for example, is considered a harbinger of a warm autumn. Naturally, meteorologists are skeptical about the second group of signs, while at the same time not belittling the importance of observations from the first group. Folk omens are both short-term - promising imminent bad weather, frost or warming, and long-term, which make a forecast for a whole season or even a year.
Step 2
It is safe to say about the preservation of good weather if there is almost no wind during the day with a slight increase in the daytime and a constant change of direction. If the sky is clear in the morning, cumulus clouds appear by noon, disappearing by evening. The dew that forms on the grass after sunset also indicates that the good weather will not change. These signs include smoke rising in a vertical column, high flying birds, chirping crickets.
Step 3
You can understand that the weather will deteriorate by the cumulus clouds remaining until nightfall, the red sunset, the absence of dew and night fog. In addition, the imminent deterioration of the weather is indicated by a small difference between day and night temperatures, the wind that does not subside towards night, and low creeping smoke from a fire or chimneys.
Step 4
The coming rain can be predicted by cirrus clouds, a large number of clouds in the west, and an increase in wind towards evening. If the sun in the morning and at sunset is colored crimson, this also indicates the imminent onset of rainy weather. The warming air at night also practically guarantees the coming rain.
Step 5
The fact that the rain will end soon can be recognized by the weakened wind, the disintegrating cloud cover, and, oddly enough, thanks to the cooling after a rainstorm for several hours, which means the passage of the cold front and the imminent improvement of the weather.
