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	Weather lore - Biocrawler
		Weather lore is the body of informal folklore related to the prediction of the weather.
		Weather systems typically move from west to east, and red clouds result when the sun shines on their undersides at either sunrise or sunset.
		While March thunderstorms indicate that the weather is unusually warm for that time of year (thunderstorms can occur only with a sufficiently large temperature difference between ground and sky and sufficient amounts of moisture to produce charge differential within a cloud), it is no indicator of the long-term weather trend.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Weather_lore (2984 words)

	Is “Red sky at night, sailor’s delight,Red sky in morning, sailor’s warning” true? Everyday ...
		Weather lore concerning the appearance of the sky, the conditions of the atmosphere, the type or movement of the clouds, and the direction of the winds may have a scientific basis and likely can predict the weather.
		Weather Forecasting Through the Ages, by Steve Graham, Claire Parkinson, and Mous Chahine - This article from the Earth Observatory at NASA discusses the history of predicting weather.
		Weather wisdom: being an illustrated practical volume wherein is contained unique compilation and analysis of the facts and folklore of natural weather prediction.
	www.loc.gov /rr/scitech/mysteries/weather-sailor.html (779 words)

	Grade Five, Gander Academy, Weather Theme
		Weather folklore may be factual or mythical, but is essentially a store of old and sometimes odd beliefs about the weather.
		All weather forecasts begin with observations of what the weather is doing all over the world.
		Clashing air masses in the middle latitudes spark interesting weather events and the boundaries separating these air masses are known as fronts.
	www.cdli.ca /CITE/weather.htm (1189 words)

	Scouting Resources - Weather - Index
		The weather in certain places can be unpredictable and liable to sudden changes (which is why so many unprepared people get into difficulty on our hills and mountains each year) but a little knowledge can help you predict most changes of weather.
		Weather and its study (meteorology) also underlay aspects of the cub and scout training program and can serve as an interesting introduction to the scientist badge too.
		There is a mock weather chart of Britain complete with weather symbols and ideas on how to construct your own instruments.
	www.scoutingresources.org.uk /weather_index.html (413 words)

	Make Kids Count - Games
		Weather forecasts and reports on television, in the newspaper, and on the radio tell us what the weather is now and what it will be later in the day, tomorrow, and on into the week.
		Weather satellites are one of the greatest innovations in weather forecasting over the past 40 years.
		Weather satellites circle the earth recording the pattern of clouds, amounts of water vapor, surface temperatures, and many other kinds of information on the state of the atmosphere.
	www.lubbockonline.com /mkc/weather.shtml (1186 words)

	Scouting Resources - Weather - Lore
		Weather lore is almost as old as the human race, and as extensive.
		Dubious weather lore sometimes appears to persist because of a desire to believe in magic or the supernatural, this is also seen in the widespread acceptance of astrology.
		However when this corresponds to the zone of fine weather which often exists between two depressions, then it suggest that it is moving away eastwards with more bad weather not far away to the west.
	www.scoutingresources.org.uk /weather_lore.html (1560 words)

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		Since many of the Core spells of natural lore are tied to the natural lorist's area and type of territory it is necessary to figure out just what a weather mages territory is. It includes cloud islands and any area that is constantly being blasted and changed by the weather.
		The animals that count as being in the Weather lorists natural lore area are high flying birds and the strange animals of the upper air as well as native creatures on cloud islands.
		The spells of weather lore are concerned with the control of weather and the production of localized weather effects for tactical effect.
	orion.math.iastate.edu /danwell/rop/weather.html (7226 words)

	Pine Cones and Weather Lore (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		"Lore" is often the result of anecdotal evidence coming true.
		Whenever an "old wives tale" is confirmed, it ingrains it as a "truism." Of course, the failures are never admitted as evidence counter to the legend.
		Thus, I favor the side that says a proliferation of pine-cones is the result of factors other than the trees' ability to sense impending bad weather.
	www.newton.dep.anl.gov /askasci/gen01/gen01487.htm (376 words)

	Folk Lore Weather Forecasting - How our ancestors forecast the weather.
		Welcome to Folk Lore Weather Forecasting whether it is to research a school assignment or a special project or just to understand what is happening with the weather, where you live.
		Folklore weather forecasting is the DIY (Do-it-yourself) method of forecasting the weather.
		We now accept the thousands of weather observations that are made each day and the fact that a weather forecast not only covers our local area but the whole country.
	tww.id.au /wea/weather.html (467 words)

	EO Library: Weather Forecasting Through the Ages Page 2
		Aristotle made some remarkably acute observations concerning the weather, along with some significant errors, and his four-volume text was considered by many to be the authority on weather theory for almost 2000 years.
		A great stride in monitoring weather at high altitudes was made in the 1920s with the invention of the radiosonde.
		Small lightweight boxes equipped with weather instruments and a radio transmitter, radiosondes are carried high into the atmosphere by a hydrogen or helium-filled balloon that ascends to an altitude of about 30 kilometers before bursting.
	earthobservatory.nasa.gov /Library/WxForecasting/wx2.html (640 words)

	BBC - Weather Centre - Features - Science and Nature - Nature's Forecasters
		During fine weather, the insects that the birds feed on are carried up high on warm thermal currents rising from the ground.
		Another example from Aboriginal weather lore is that seeing young joeys in kangaroos' pouches in particularly dry areas is a sign that the rains are on their way.
		One of the most well-known examples of weather lore, with a film of the same name, is Groundhog Day.
	www.bbc.co.uk /weather/features/science_nature/animal_lore.shtml (675 words)

	Weather -- Forecasting
		Modern weather forecasting involves a combination of computer models, observation, and a knowledge of trends and patterns.
		Certain weather features seem to be associated with certain types of weather, at least most of the time.
		Over the years, the observation of weather patterns has resulted in folk wisdom about the weather, a good deal of which is inaccurate, but some of which is supported by science.
	www.learner.org /exhibits/weather/forecasting.html (454 words)

	Grade Five, Gander Academy, Weather Theme
		This project is design to involve groups of primary and elementary classes in recording and exchanging weather data to determine if the ground hog is a good predictor of weather.
		A lot of old weather sayings are not very reliable and some are just plain silly, but others are worth paying attention to.
		All weather forecasts begin with observations of what the weather is doing all over the world.
	www.stemnet.nf.ca /CITE/weather.htm (1189 words)

	The Weather Notebook \| Smell of Weather
		But for ages, certain people claim to be able to predict weather based on their sense of smell.
		Many weather sayings are, um, misguided, but others do have a ring of truth like the ones we just quoted.
		When the wind blows from a given direction with an approaching weather system, we may smell the gases given off by distant wet plants and soil long before the rains move over us.
	www.weathernotebook.org /transcripts/2004/12/30.php (320 words)

	Weather Lore
		While exploring weather proverbs from online sources and books, students are posed with questions to help them think about the relationship between weather and their own daily experiences.
		He has been collecting information about weather since he was a child from meteorologists and others.
		His definitions of weather phenomena and interpretations of rhymes are easy to understand for the beginning meteorologist.
	www.cyberbee.com /coolweather/weatherlore.html (187 words)

	USATODAY.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Changes in the atmospheric conditions may be responsible for their peculiar actions, but they are affected by the weather which is taking place and not by weather to come.
		For example, peculiar growths and developments in vegetation are the results of weather conditions that have passed and have no connection with those to come.
		The trouble with weather proverbs is not so much that they're all wrong, but that they're not all right for all times in all places.
	www.usatoday.com /weather/wproverb.htm (734 words)

	On Whether Weather 'Proverbs' are Proverbs
		From this admittedly cursory bibliographical survey, one can safely surmise that 'weather proverbs' constitute a legitimate subtype of the proverb genre and further that the study of them falls appropriately under the rubric of paremiology.
		There is a venerable folk belief that a red sky in the evening signals fair weather to follow while a red sky in the morning predicts bad weather.
		And in the morning, It will be foul weather today: for the sky is red and lowering." The Biblical text provides a useful terminus ante quem for this belief which is one of the numerous weather sayings which has been tested by meteorologists and found to be relatively accurate.
	www.deproverbio.com /DPjournal/DP,6,2,00/WEATHER.html (1220 words)

	WXSYS: WEATHER LORE + FUZZY LOGIC = WEATHER FORECASTS
		Given the rapid obsolescence of weather forecasts, we see a need for the continual adjustment, correction or deprecation of forecasts by inclusion of additional local information not available at the time the forecast was originally prepared.
		An additional advantage of weather lore, for us, is that it is nearly always expressed in rules of thumb that embody prototypically fuzzy input/output relationships.
		Weather proverbs, especially those relating to the actions of animals and the condition of vegetation, are of little value.
	web.cs.bgsu.edu /maner/wxsys/wxsys.htm (2915 words)

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	andlocalnews164.blogspot.com (159 words)

	Weather Proverbs page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Each culture has sought to understand weather through stories that explain how the Sun was created, how and why the wind blows, why we have frost and how fire (a means of controlling temperature) came to the world.
		One such theory for causing rain involved simultaneously lighting a series of fires that were built with about forty acres of timber and spaced every twenty miles in a 600 -700 mile line reaching from the north to the south.
		J.B. Atwater of Chicago designed a box rigged with explosives and mounted on a long pole which, when placed about a mile southwest of the area to be protected, would explode when the high winds of a tornado came and thereby cause the tornado to dissipate.
	virtualskies.arc.nasa.gov /ATM/youDecide/weatherProverbs.html (466 words)

	Russian Weather Proverbs
		For example, in the temperate climate of Russia people have noticed a weather pattern that repeats for many years: in the middle of February, March and May the temperature falls by a few degrees, regardless of the weather during preceding days.
		Notice any constant weather patterns, when one event is followed by another (for example, if the sun sets in the clouds on one day, it rains on the next day).
		Write a short essay about how weather proverbs are connected to predicting weather, how such proverbs first appeared, about the possibility of using them for predicting weather in your area.
	www.math.montana.edu /~nmp/materials/ess/russian/int_weather/proverbs/proverbs.html (1453 words)

	Third Grade Weather Lore
		Weather is the condition of the atmosphere at a particular place and time.
		Weather lore is sayings and proverbs that have been passed down from generation to generation.
		In the past, the purpose of weather lore was to help people who worked outside, such as farmers and sailors, to predict the weather.
	www.chariho.k12.ri.us /ash/kvocatura/weatherlore.htm (207 words)

	BBC - Weather Centre - WeatherWise - Living with the Weather - Effects
		A huge stock of weather lore and sayings has also been built up over the years and many are still in use today - right or not!
		Some weather lore is known to be correct.
		A better indication of approaching weather can be had by using the instruments of traditional forecasters.
	www.bbc.co.uk /weather/weatherwise/living/effects/lore.shtml (321 words)

	Sky Watch: Signs of the Weather (Weather Lore)
		From these two definitions, we get weather lore, which is a collection of proverbs and sayings that have been passed on from generation to generation over hundreds of years, generally in rhyme.
		Many of the weather signs and sayings given in the pages that follow can really be used as a guide to how the weather is likely to develop 12 to 24 hours in the future.
		As with those sayings related to humidity or clouds, much of the weather lore that is based on changes in air pressure or the wind can accurately predict the weather.
	wilstar.com /skywatch.htm (3476 words)

	WEATHER LORE and PROVERBS
		For centuries, shepherds and sailors - people whose lives and livelihoods depended on the weather - relied on lore to foretell tomorrow's weather.
		Lore involving key dates or anniversaries or suggesting monthly or seasonal change can only be right by chance.
		For instance, a red sky means rain or dry weather according to the time of the day it occurs.
	www.cmos.ca /weatherlore.html (673 words)

	JewishEncyclopedia.com - WEATHER-LORE: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		A certain number of these occur in the Talmud (B. 147a).
		If the weather at Shabu'ot is clear, sow wheat.
		If the smoke of the altar turns to the north on the last days of Tabernacles, there will be much rain in the following year.
	www.jewishencyclopedia.com /view.jsp?artid=68&letter=W (337 words)

	Philadelphia Math Science Partnership - Curriculum Resources
		The purpose of weather lore was to instruct early farmers, sailors, herdsmen, and others on how to predict the weather.
		The Weather Dude (a Weather Channel meteorologist) recommends these weather titles for students, parents, and teachers.
		While not directly related to an investigation of weather and climate, the concept of space weather can be an interesting extension idea.
	www.fi.edu /msp/weather/connections.html (179 words)

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