| If you crawl out of your tent early in a summer | | | | weather to come would be a tearing layer of |
| morning and find out breakfast will be nice and | | | | clouds at the evening, single, fast moving clouds |
| easy, because there is no dew on the grass, | | | | drifting with the wind, or an almost cloudless sky |
| should not get ready for a longer walk out in the | | | | in the evening. |
| open range. If you want to go anyway, you | | | | There has always been a relation between the |
| should at least take a waterproof jacket. | | | | colour of sundowns and sunrise and the coming |
| There are a few signs for bad or good upcoming | | | | weather. A red sunrise is promising rain, same as |
| weather. All you need to know is how to read | | | | a pale yellow sundown. A clear and clean |
| them, if there is no reliable weather forecast | | | | sundown, even red as red can be is an almost |
| available. | | | | guarantee for a nice and sunny next day. |
| Animals usually know ahead of time how the | | | | More signs for bad weather to come are halos |
| weather is going to be. You all know about the | | | | around the moon, shimmering stars at night, |
| swallows flying high, if the weather is nice. That's | | | | sweating rocks and a very clear and long sight |
| because their dinner insects are flying high on nice | | | | into the range. Sinking mist in the morning, a lot of |
| and sunny days. Mosquitoes are unusually | | | | dew in the first half of the night and distant fog |
| aggressive on a morning before a rain or | | | | on the horizon are promising good weather. |
| thunderstorm. And if you can't sleep at night | | | | If you are venturing out in the range or into the |
| because of the frogs a having a "field night", you | | | | mountains, you should always try to get the best |
| can expect a nice and sunny day in the morning. | | | | of weather forecasts possible. Always be |
| Not quite so easy is reading the clouds. A whole | | | | prepared for a sudden change! It might be very |
| variety of different clouds are a sign of bad | | | | entertaining to watch a group of folks getting |
| weather to come, same as light feather clouds | | | | picked up from the side of a mountain by a |
| and a fresh breeze at the same time. Fast | | | | search and rescue helicopter, because they got |
| moving shreds of clouds low on the horizon are | | | | surprised by a sudden fog and bad rain, it might |
| promising bad weather, also. Signs of nice | | | | be you, so be aware. |