General Weather/Earth Sciences Topics > Weather Folklore
Accurate or Not? You decide!
Farmtalk:
So I thought about having some fun with this forum. Somebody posts a weather folklore, and then we decide whether it's accurate or not accurate. Here we go!!
If salt is sticky,
And gains in weight;
It will rain
Before too late
Bushman:
Accurate. Sort of.
Old Tele man:
Sodium Chloride (salt) is hygroscopic...attracts water from air.
Lookup the word: deliquescence
MikeSatter:
This is one that I remember from the Bible.
Red sky at night, shepherd’s delight, red sky in the morning shepherd's warning’
Aardvark:
gee thought the saying was "If your shoe sticks to the floor, don't reach down and feel for why."
Salt really doesn't get sticky.
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