Red sky at night, sailors delight.Submitted by linuxknight t3_10ubkxa in gifs
OtherwiseJello t1_j7eorex wrote
Reply to comment by ThatCunningLinguist in Red sky at night, sailors delight. by linuxknight
My dad always said this. Must be a Marine thing. Or learned it from the Navy.
boromeer3 t1_j7llq2j wrote
It is an old saying and generally true in the northern hemisphere where this English-language saying originated and weather patterns typically travel from west to east. Stormy skies are more red than usual at sunrise and sunset. So if I was sailing from America to England, west to east with the prevailing wind, and saw a red sunrise, a “red sky in the morning,” I could expect that storm to travel towards me and I towards it since the sun rises in the east.
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