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Spoken sayings about weather changes
www.XINHUANET.com September 24, 2004 14:31:01 Source: Shanghai Student English Newspaper
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Today, the " "Face" has become more and more scientific, but old people still talk about some popular folk wisdom about weather and meteorology, both Chinese and Westerners.
Did you know?
◎Sound travels farther before a storm
◎Ropes tighten before a rain.
◎Rainbows are always opposite the sun.
◎City temp
eratures are almost always 5 - 10 degrees warmer than the surrounding suburbs.
◎Clouds cover two-thirds of the earth.
◎Raindrops fall at speeds between 7 and 18 miles per hour.
For centuries, sailors and farmers relied on folklore to predict the weather. As modern forecasting techniques became more accurate, most of these old tales were dismissed. But some have valid scientific explanations.
Macerel sky, not three days dry.
The sky is full of fish scales, and it will never be clear for three days
Mackerel sky refers to clouds that look like fish scales. These cirrocumulus clouds are high, rippled ice crystals (crystals) that show up in advance of a storm system and may predict rain.
When dew is on the grass, rain will never come to pass.
Dew on the grass Flash, say goodbye to rainy days
The formation of dew requires nighttime cooling. This usually occurs best on cloudless, still (windless) nights, so the chance of rain is unlikely. < /p>
Red sky at night, sailor's delight. Red sky in the morning, sailor's warning.
Red sky at night makes sailors happy; red sky in the morning makes sailors anxious.
A red sky is the result of light passing through contaminants held close to the earth by high air pressure. These particles scatter away some of the shorter wavelengths of light ( violets and blues), leaving only the longer wavelengths (the oranges and reds). A red sky is a reliable indicator of a high-pressure system, which generally brings fair weather.
A red sky in the morning is the result of sunlight reflecting through clouds moving in from the west, which could bring bad weather.
Fish bite best before a rain.
Big fish eat small fish, fish are falling from the sky
The drop in barometric pressure before a storm sets into motion a chain of events: Bubbles formed by decaying products on the lake bottom start to expand, making some of the matter buoyant enough to rise. As minnows start to feed on the rising matter, larger fish begin feeding on the minnows.
When a halo rings around the moon or sun, rain is approaching on the run.
When a halo rings around the moon or sun, rain is approaching on the run.
The sun and moon are ringed with silver, God is about to rain
The halo ) is caused by refraction of light through cirrostratus clouds. These clouds are similar to cirrocumulus, but they appear smooth instead of rippled. They indicate a possibility of an approaching storm system.
Mountains in the morning. Fountains in the evening.
Cumulonimbus clouds in the sky in the morning, and heavy rain in the evening
Mountains refer to massive (large) , cumulon-imbus morning clouds that indicate possible late-afternoon thunder-storms.