When a friend came over this morning, he said, “Red sky in the morning…,” referring to the phrase:
Red sky at night, sailor’s delight,
Red sky at morning, sailors take warning.
In other words, a storm is coming.
Caused me to think about this saying, familiar to coast dwellers and especially sailors and fishermen. So, why does a red sky in the morning mean a storm is coming? I looked it up here, on Wikipedia:
“In America:
Red sky at morning, sailors take warning.
In Great Britain and Ireland:
Red sky at night, shepherd’s delight,
Red sky in morning, shepherd’s warning.…
Weather systems typically move from west to east, and red clouds result when the sun shines on their undersides at either sunrise or sunset. At these two times of day, the sun’s light is passing at a very low angle through a great thickness of atmosphere, the result of which is the scattering out of most of the shorter wavelengths — the greens, blues, and violets — of the visible spectrum, and so sunlight is heavy at the red end of the spectrum.
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I flew to LA yesterday, the occasion being a film tonight about my college roommate, Richard Zanuck, who died unexpectedly a few months ago. It’s a documentary on him, titled “Don’t Say No Until I Finish Talking.” It was completed just before he passed away.
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I spent yesterday roaming the boardwalk with 2 cameras. It’s LA at its max. Performers, freaks, skaters, artists, babes, hunks, especially on a Sunday, it’s a dizzying array of let-it-all-hang-out SoCal. Click here for photo album from yesterday.
When a friend came over this morning, he said, “Red sky in the morning…,” referring to the phrase:
