Environment Canada provides instructions to build a verity of simple weather instruments such as:
While they are building their devices for predicting the weather, you may want to discuss old folk sayings about the weather such as:
When the dew is on the grass,
Rain shall never come to pass.
Red sky at night, sailor’s delight.
Red sky at morning, sailors take warning.
When windows won’t open and salt clogs the shaker,
The weather will favour the umbrella maker.
When halo rings the sun or moon,
Rain or snow will happen soon.
When the wind is blowing from the east,
‘Tis not fit for man nor beast.
When clouds appear like rocks and towers,
Earth’s refreshed by frequent showers.
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