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"Weather lore has been around since people needed to predict the weather and plan their activities. Sailors and farmers relied on it to navigate ships and plant crops."
 * __Welcome to 5K's Weather Lore Galore Wikispace!!!__**

This wiki space will contain students research and discussions surrounding weather lore and its validity as a weather prediction method. The class has been broken up into teams and these teams will choose one weather lore saying and conduct experiments and research its origin to determine whether they believe that it is a valid weather prediction saying and if it can predict weather patterns or not.

Students will have a team page wherein they will share their weather lore saying and the research they have found or interviews they have conducted concerning its validity. They will blog about the process and then their team decision as to the sayings relevance to weather patterning.

Team Cloud Hoppers, Team Thunder, Team Wipeout, Team Rain-shower and Team Sunrays are excited to share their geographical exploration with you all! Hopefully at the end of this project, you will all be able to pack for your next vacation correctly based on weather lore :)

**But can weather lore truly predict the weather or seasons? ** Weather lore concerning the appearance of the sky, the conditions of the atmosphere, the type or movement of the clouds, and the direction of the winds may have a scientific basis and likely can predict the weather. In order to understand why “Red sky at night, sailor’s delight. Red sky in morning, sailor’s warning” can predict the weather, we must understand more about weather and the colors in the sky. Usually, weather moves from west to east, blown by the westerly trade winds. This means storm systems generally move in from the West. The colors we see in the sky are due to the rays of sunlight being split into colors of the spectrum as they pass through the atmosphere and ricochet off the water vapor and particles in the atmosphere. The amounts of water vapor and dust particles in the atmosphere are good indicators of weather conditions. They also determine which colors we will see in the sky. During sunrise and sunset the sun is low in the sky, and it transmits light through the thickest part of the atmosphere. A red sky suggests an atmosphere loaded with dust and moisture particles. We see the red, because red wavelengths (the longest in the color spectrum) are breaking through the atmosphere. The shorter wavelengths, such as blue, are scattered and broken up.