There are a lot of old weather proverbs in the world.
Long ago, people watched the skies and animals carefully
and made many weather proverbs. Some people wanted to know
when they should go to the sea to catch fish.
For these people, weather proverbs were very useful.
Have you ever heard any weather proverbs?
One of the most popular proverbs in Japan says,
"If the west sky in the evening is red,
the weather will be nice the next day.
If the east sky in the morning is red,
it will rain that day."
This proverb is often said by people
who live in the Temperate Zone of the earth, too.
In fact, the red sky in the west in the evening means
that the weather in the west is nice. In the Temperate Zone,
the weather often moves from west to east because of strong winds from the west.
So if the west sky is red in the evening,
you can say you will have good weather the next day.
In the same way, if the east sky is red in the morning,
nice weather may go away and bad weather may come from the west.
So you can say it may rain that day.
Another proverb in Japan says,
"If a kite flies high in the sky, the weather will be nice.
If a kite flies low in the sky, it will be bad "
Some people say, "When the weather is good,
a kite often flies high in the sky.
It is easy for a kite to find something to eat from there.
When the weather is bad, it is sometimes misty.
So a kite can not see well,
and it flies low to find food."
There are many other weather proverbs in different places of the world.
Proverbs are sometimes wrong.
But it is interesting to learn the workings of nature from proverbs.
Temperate Zone
misty
kite
the working of nature