Are You Weather-Wise?
By Heraold Heart
Here are some common beliefs about the weather. Test your weather wisdom, chech each weather true or false before going to the answers. As many as 16 correct means your weather sense is cyclonic!
1. The coldest winter weather usually comes when the days re the shortest.
True
False
2. A ring round the moon is a sign of comming rain or snow.
3. A high barometer is always a sign of fair weather ahead.
4. Snow is merely frozen rain.
5. Gardens in valleys and hollows generally receive autumn frosts before garedens on hilltops.
6. Open windows attract lightning.
7. It is not the heat but the humidity that makes hot days uncomfertable.
8. Hail rarely falls during winter.
9. A change in the phase of the moon brings a change in the weather.
10. No two snoflakes are identical in pattern.
11. It is correct to say "the dew falls at night."
12. The average number of thunderstorms in progress throughout the world at any instant is nearer to 2000 than 200.
13. It is sometimes too cold for snowfall.
14. Thunderstorms sometimes causes milk to sour.
15. Radio static is more pronounced in summer than at any other time.
16. Rainbows may be seen at night.
17. Thunder is absolutely harmless.
18. Frost is frizen dew.
19. It is especially dangerous to seek shelter from a thunderstorm under a solitary tree.
20. A red sunset means a stormy weather next day.
21. A heavy dew is portent of clear weather.