Traditional Culture Encyclopedia - Weather inquiry - Clouds blocked the dam for three days in the morning, indicating rain.

Clouds blocked the dam for three days in the morning, indicating rain.

Clouds block the dam in the morning, and it usually rains within three days. Cloud dam is a weather phenomenon, which shows that there is a narrow cloud belt on the weather map in the morning, which spans some areas and has a clear belt parallel to it along its southern edge. The cloud dam is formed because the wind direction at the southern edge of the high-pressure system has changed during the vertical development. When the wind blows from the southern edge of the high-pressure system to the cloud dam, the cloud belt will move northward, forming an updraft inside the cloud belt, which will lead to rainfall. So if there is a cloud blocking the dam in the morning, it is likely to rain within three days.