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Common sayings about weather changes

Www.XINHUANET.com, September 24th, 2004 Source: Shanghai Student English Newspaper.

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Today, the "face" of meteorology has become more and more scientific, but the old people still talk about some popular folk wisdom about weather and meteorology, such as China people and western Renye Fang.

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Sound travels farther before the storm.

◎ The rope is tightened before it rains.

The rainbow always runs counter to the sun.

City temperature

Suburbs are almost always 5-10 degrees higher than the surrounding suburbs.

Clouds cover two thirds of the earth.

◎ Raindrops fall at a speed of 7 to 18 miles per hour.

Many countries, sailors and farmers rely on folklore to predict the weather. As modern forecasting technology becomes more and more accurate, most ancient legends are ignored. But some are effective. Scientific explanation.

Mackerel sky is not dry for three days.

The sky is full of fish scales, and it will not be sunny for three days.

Mackerel sky refers to clouds that look like fish scales. These cirrocumulus (cirrocumulus) are high, wavy ice crystals (crystals), which appear before the storm system and may indicate rainfall.

When the dew is on the grass, the rain will not come.

Dewdrops glistened on the grass to bid farewell to the rainy day.

Dew formation requires cooling at night. This kind of situation best happens on a cloudless and windless night, so it is unlikely to rain.

The red sky at night is the happiness of sailors. Red sky in the morning, sailor's warning.

The sky is red at night, and the sailors are in a good mood; The sky is red in the morning and the sailors are very anxious.

The red sky is the result of light passing through pollutants (close to the earth due to high pressure). . These particles scatter some light with shorter wavelengths (violet and blue), leaving only light with longer wavelengths (orange and red). Red sky is a reliable indicator of high-pressure system, which usually brings sunny weather.

The red sky in the morning is the result of sunlight reflecting through the clouds entering from the west, which may bring bad weather.

Fish are the easiest to take the bait before it rains.

Eat small fish, big fish, it wants to fish in the sky.

The drop in air pressure before the storm triggered a series of events: bubbles formed by rotten products. The bottom of the lake began to swell, causing some substances to float to the surface. When small fish began to feed on rising substances, big fish began to feed on small fish.

When a halo appears around the moon or the sun, rain is coming.

The sun and the moon are inlaid with silver. It's going to rain.

Halo is caused by the refraction of light passing through cirostratus. These clouds are similar to cirrocumulus, but they look smooth rather than wavy. They indicate that a storm system may be approaching.

The mountains in the morning. The fountain in the evening.

Cumulonimbus clouds in the morning,

It rains heavily at night.

Mountains refer to huge cumulus clouds, and the clouds in the morning indicate that there may be thunderstorms in the late afternoon.