A Conversation for International Weather Wisdom

Red Sky in the Morning

Post 1

ITIWBS

The rule also holds good in the deserts of the American southwest.

A blood red sky in the morning means a wrath-of-God class storm within the day.


There's a classic of Western art depicting a cowboy leading his horse to higher ground under a blood red sky, against the impending storm and flash floods, title, if I'm not mistaken, "Cowboy Take Warning".

Its hard to credit the sky could be a color like that till one has actually seen it.


http://www.google.com/search?as_st=y&tbm=isch&as_q=Western+Art,&as_epq=blood+red+sky&as_oq=cowboy+leading+horse,+flash+flood&as_eq=&cr=&as_sitesearch=&safe=images&tbs=ic:specific,isc:red#imgrc=IWKIew11QYXk6M%3A

This is close, but redder.


Red Sky in the Morning

Post 2

Gingersnapper+Keeper of the Cookie Jar and Stuff and Nonsense

A very, very old saying as I remember it goes:
Red in the morning, sailor takes warning.
Red at night, sailor's delight.


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