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Weather FolkloreWeather Folklore Quiz ...True/False Quiz ...True/False

1.Ring around the moon means rain soon.2.When spiders weave their webs, good weather is coming.3. When your kitten is frisky, rain is on its way.4. The winter will be colder if squirrels’ tails are bushier.5. Bats fly lower before a storm.

6. Red sky at night, sailor’s delight,red sky in morning, sailor’s warning.7. Bones and teeth ache when a storm is coming. 8. Frogs croak more before a rain.9.Lightning never strikes the same place twice.10. A mackerel sky (fish scale appearance) means rain in 24 hours.

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 low’ring. O yehypocrites, ye can discern the face of the sky; but can yenot discern the signs of the times? (Matthew 16:2-3)

Meteorology is the science of the atmosphere. It examines temperature, atmospheric pressure, humidity, and rainfall.

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Bunkhouse thermometer Nevada 1920

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Largest thermometer 50 feetAtlantic City,New JerseyBoardwalk

Thermometer ShelterThermometer Shelter

1943 National Airport

Thermometers must have shelter from sunlight and heatradiating from nearby buildings. The latticed sides allow the air to circulatefreely.

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Weather reporters require the most up-to-date information and are able to predict weather fairly accurately. He considers information from radar, satellites, computer models, and “gut feeling” in making his prediction.

Information is entered into a computer and calculations are made in regards to rain probabilities.

Still the forecasts are not 100% accurate.

CreditsCredits•All photographs are taken from the American Memory Collection and are used with the gracious permission of the Library of Congress.

Slide 5 - Bunkhouse thermometer, Nevada, 1920Slide 6 - Largest thermometer, Atlantic City, New JerseySlide 7 - Thermometer Shelter, 1934, National AirportSlide 8 - Wind powered flour mill, Nebraska, 1930’s.Slide 9 - Balloon weather radio instrument Slide 10 - Wind vane/anemometer, Washington D.C airport, 1943Slide 11 - Weather Bureau Station, Washington D.C., 1943Slide 12 - “Four Roses” barometer