Can you give the reasons for being so.
I sail, in fact I live aboard a sailing yacht. The weather is vitally important to me (and fishermen and farmers) so I (we) pay a great deal of attention to it. When you watch anything for long enough you begin to see patterns and connections that you otherwise wouldn’t notice. For example, most people when they look at clouds see only two types: fluffy white ones (that usually mean fine weather) or big black ones (that usually mean rain). In fact there are dozens of cloud types and after a while you get to see how the changing clouds foretell weather that’s headed your way. Sometimes even the shape of the clouds is important because it tells you about the high-altitude winds and that can also foretell approaching bad weather.
Like anything, it’s just practise. The first thing I do every single morning is look at the sky. Of course I use conventional weather forecasts, but you can learn to "read the sky" and those of us for whom weather is critical eventually learn to do just that.
November 14th, 2009 at 3:35 am
I sail, in fact I live aboard a sailing yacht. The weather is vitally important to me (and fishermen and farmers) so I (we) pay a great deal of attention to it. When you watch anything for long enough you begin to see patterns and connections that you otherwise wouldn’t notice. For example, most people when they look at clouds see only two types: fluffy white ones (that usually mean fine weather) or big black ones (that usually mean rain). In fact there are dozens of cloud types and after a while you get to see how the changing clouds foretell weather that’s headed your way. Sometimes even the shape of the clouds is important because it tells you about the high-altitude winds and that can also foretell approaching bad weather.
Like anything, it’s just practise. The first thing I do every single morning is look at the sky. Of course I use conventional weather forecasts, but you can learn to "read the sky" and those of us for whom weather is critical eventually learn to do just that.
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