{"id":23023,"date":"2013-03-08T17:13:54","date_gmt":"2013-03-08T22:13:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uncommongoods.com\/?p=23023"},"modified":"2013-05-01T10:46:46","modified_gmt":"2013-05-01T14:46:46","slug":"uncommon-knowledge-%e2%80%9cred-sky-morning%e2%80%9d-predict-rain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/2013\/uncommon-knowledge-%e2%80%9cred-sky-morning%e2%80%9d-predict-rain\/","title":{"rendered":"Uncommon Knowledge: Does \u201cred sky at morning\u201d really predict rain?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ugoods.com\/product\/copper-rain-gauge?source=blog\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-23024\" title=\"Copper Rain Gauge | UncommonGoods\" src=\"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/21517_zoom1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"688\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/21517_zoom1.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/21517_zoom1-300x375.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a>It\u2019s a familiar old rhyme that we don\u2019t take much stock in any more: \u201cRed sky at night, sailors\u2019 delight; red sky at morning, sailors take warning.\u201d But, for an age before satellite imaging, the rhyme contained some solid meteorological truth. The red sky mentioned is not just sunset or sunrise. As the sun rises in the east, if the sky around it is clear enough for its rays to reach the clouds in the west, it makes them glow red. That combination of clear and cloudy sky suggests that a weather front is moving through. Since most storm systems move from west to east, a red sky at morning shows clouds moving in from the west, while red sky at night is the result of clouds rolling safely away into the east.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ugoods.com\/product\/copper-rain-gauge?source=blog\" target=\"_blank\">Copper Rain Gauge, $40<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The answer is blowing in the wind. Literally.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":23024,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1208],"tags":[813],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23023"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23023\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}