What is the origin of the saying, “Red sky at morning, sailorâ??s warning; red sky at night, sailorâ??s delight”? Does a red sky in the morning actually foretell a storm?
“Long before computers and the Weather Channel, humans needed weather forecasts,” says Steve Ackerman, a UW-Madison professor of oceanic and atmospheric sciences. “Farmers and sailors in particular needed to know if storms were approaching.”