Nature in Aquatics 99 



Study the weather habits in your locality, there are many indications that 

 will allow you to forecast weather a few hours in advance, without consult- 

 ing instruments of any kind. A sudden change of wind, a rapid change in 

 temperature, thunder-heads on the horizon, are all indications of weather 

 changes. These should be known and recognized because often you might 

 be on a hike or boat and not have the instruments we have mentioned. 



There are no fixed rules for this kind of weather prediction. Each locality 

 has its own peculiarity. For instance; on Long Island Sound, squalls often 

 come up against a prevailing wind while, inland, the storms usually come 

 with the wind. The writer has seen five squalls in one afternoon, rain on 

 one side of the river and not on the other. In this locality the storms came 

 down a tributary of a large river and turned down the main stream without 

 crossing it. 



There is a great deal of weather lore available in rime and prose peculiar 

 to different localities. Much of it is inaccurate and based on superstition; 

 however, sometimes there is a grain of truth to be found in them. Seamen 

 used some of the following in the days of the windjammers: 



Red sky in the morning 

 Sailors take warning. 



Red sky at night, 

 Sailor's delight. 



