Straight from Jesus
“Red sky at night, sailors delight; red sky in the morning, sailors take warning.”
Three surprising things about that aphorism:
- People have been saying it for thousands of years.
- Jesus is said to have uttered a version of it in Matthew 16:2-3: “He answered and said unto them, When it is evening, ye say, It will be fair weather: for the sky is red. And in the morning, It will be foul weather to day: for the sky is red and lowring.”
- The saying is scientifically sound as a general rule-of-thumb weather predictor. A red sky in the morning suggests that low pressure (unstable weather) is moving in from the west, pushing out high pressure (stable weather). The opposite is true when the sky glows red in the evening.
(The photo shows Lake Huron at 6 a.m. on a recent stormy day)
