13 Emergency Forecasters Of Weather!
Mother Nature and all She possesses is the most powerful force on Earth. More powerful than all the nukes built and will be built. Mother Nature and all She possesses shows no mercy on the ignorant and the disrespectful. So you have to know ’13 emergency forecasters of weather.’
On your next ‘planned adventure’ (see 1st blog post under Wilderness Survival), ALWAYS monitor the weather. If the weather is reported to be bad, ABORT your outdoor adventure and go another day. But them highly paid weather forecasters on TV are known to be wrong.
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So here are 09 Emergency Forecasters Of Weather, Earthquakes And More so You’re Ready Anytime Anywhere.
- Acerrano Cricket Temperature Weather Forecasting
- AM Radio Weather Forecasting
- Ant Weather Forecasting
- Campfire Weather Forecasting
- Dandelion Weather Forecasting
- Glowing Weather Forecaster
- Green Warning Forecaster
- Forecasting Weather Using Your Hair
- Horse Tail Weather Forecasting
- Lightning Distance Formula
- Pet Earthquake Forecaster
- Red Sky Weather Forecasting
- Country Dweller Weather Forecasting
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Acerrano Cricket Temperature Weather Forecasting: Them noisy cricket critters are trying to help you out and could tell you the temperature. Here’s a step-by-step guide to figuring out the temperature using crickets.
Step 01: Count the number of total chirps in 15 seconds.
Step 02: Add the constant 37, to the count in Step 01.
Step 03: This total count gives you the temperature in Fahrenheit.
OK, OK, here’s a practice example for you.
Practice Example – Step 01: You’re outside and that noisy cricket critter is driving you crazy. You can’t beat em’, so you might as well join em’. You get out your watch and you count the total number of chirps in 15-seconds. You count a total of 39-chirps in 15-seconds.
Practice Example – Step 02: Now you have to add the constant 37 to 39.
Practice Example – Step 03: The constant 37 is added to 39 for a total of 76. The temperature is 76-degrees Fahrenheit.
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AM Radio Weather Forecasting: Here’s a weather forecasting trick that was used after WWII using AM (amplitude-modulated) radios. AM radio enthusiasts called the “clicks,” “cracks,” “grinders,” and “hisses” atmospherics, which was later shortened to sferics. These noises were found to warn of certain weather conditions. After WWII, these sounds were used to forecast weather!
The following is a guide to use to help you forecast weather. It is only good for AM radios cause FM (frequency-modulated) are constructed to filter-out the atmospheric noise.
• Hiss Noises: Hissing noises warned of hail storms.
• Violent Cracking Noises: Violent cracking noises warned of approaching cold-front thunderstorms.
• Weak Cracking Noises: Weak cracking noises warned of frosts and drops in temperatures.
Now that you know what those noises translate to, here’s a technique to use your AM radio as a weather forecaster to tune it & aim it in the direction of the weather. Just tune your radio to a “blank reception spot.”
Then aim it till you get the strongest atmospheric static. That direction is the direction of that type of weather according to the atmospheric noise you’re picking up. This radio forecasting deserves more research. In the future, there may be more data concerning this interesting subject.
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Ant Weather Forecasting: The Anasazi had a weather forecasting technique – they used ants. They noticed ants went about at regular speed doing their everyday jobs. But prior to a storm the ants already knew was coming (drop in barometric pressure?), they’d speed up their activities to get the work done before the storm hit.
This ant weather forecasting trick wasn’t 100% – nothing is, but it was a proven weather forecasting technique used by those geniuses called the Anasazi.
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Campfire Weather Forecasting: Next time you look at the smoke at your campfire, look at it like the survival expert you’re becoming. Here’s how that campfire smoke can help you predict the weather!
Hundreds of years prior to the invention and use of modern weather predicting gadgets (which aren’t 100%), what did folks use to predict the weather? They used time-proven natural methods.
Smoke is always around (outdoor adventures) because we use fires to cook our food, warm us, and you might even see it coming from those nasty smoke stacks that pollute the environment. Here are some proven techniques to use smoke to predict the weather.
According to the Scientific Society of Rochdale England, who kept a record of smoke observations, smoke may have weather predictive capabilities. The study comes from smoke rising from chimneys.
For example, when smoke rose vertically into the air it indicated out of a 50-day record keeping period that 42 of those days were fine days while only 06 were wet days.
Now if the smoke rising out of that chimney were just hanging around (humidity) it indicated that the wet days outnumbered the dry days 21 to 06. How smoke reacts to the surrounding air is dependent on the temperature of the air at different altitudes, the wind, and if the smoke is saturated with water vapor – humidity.
Remember, the smoke isn’t really predicting the weather, it’s the combined effects of temperatures at various altitudes, the humidity in the air, and the winds that affect the smoke to give you the “smoke signals” that may save your life Anytime Anywhere!
YES, you can use smokestacks too – it works the same way. I monitor smokestacks when I’m on the road and they’ve always been 100% correct so far.
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Dandelion Weather Forecasting: Do you know what a hygrometer is? A hygrometer is an instrument, manmade or natural, that measures atmospheric humidity. And humidity, or the lack of humidity, is a KEY INDICATOR of things to come, whether it’s KILLER wet weather, snow, flash floods, hurricanes or if dry weather is in the forecast.
Next time you go outside take a good look at dandelions – they’re everywhere. Dandelions react to humidity or the lack of it too. Dandelions will open their yellow flowers when the air is dry. When there is evidence of moisture in the air, they’ll close-up!
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Glowing Weather Forecaster: Just before a storm was about to let loose the sky is filled with electricity. At night, sailors at sea would see glowing lights over masts and spars. They called this “St. Elmo’s Fire.” The Old West cowboys called it “Fox Fire.” At night cowboys would see strange glowing blue and yellow lights over the horns of the cattle.
This sight was very strange to the cowboys and would be a frightening sight to the ignorant outdoor’s person in this day and age, but not you an IRISAP subscriber. Anyway, after seeing these strange lights all hell would break loose! It rained and stormed cats and dogs.
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Green Warning Forecaster: A rare but reliable weather forecaster has been seen present day to back in the frontier days and beyond. And when it is seen, the unmerciful wrath of Mother Nature isn’t far behind. It’s rare to see blue skies turn pea soup green.
But when you see the skies turn dark green it’s a sure bet killer thunderstorms, lightning, or tornados are about to strike. It’s highly recommended to give warnings, gather the kin folk & critters and seek secure shelters like RIGHT NOW!
Note: I talked to an Army soldier who was deployed to Katrina during the early days of the hurricane. He stated he witnessed the sky turn to a greenish color. Almost immediately, he stated it rained so hard and the winds were so high the rain was coming down sideways.
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Forecasting Weather Using Hair: You ever have those days when you can’t do a thing with your hair or know somebody whose hair frizzes all up on certain days? Here’s the reason why – when there is an increase in humidity hair actually shortens up by 2%! Just enough to frizz it up.
During WWII, the US Navy would use blond hair (unbleached, unpermanented) to measure humidity or the lack of it. They would place the hair between 02 posts and periodically measure the tension of the hair. With changes in weather the hair would lengthen (dry weather) or shorten (increase in humidity).
And as you know that humidity, or lack of it, may be an indicator of incoming bad or good weather! So next time your hair frizzes-up or someone you know does use this field-expedient weather indicator along with many others you have learned to be ready Anytime Anywhere!
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Horse Tail Weather Forecasting: Of all the ’13 emergency forecasters of weather’ – this one I use all the time. And it works when them high paid forecasters on TV are wrong!
An old weather forecasting trick uses the shape of a streaming flared-up horse’s tail. When you see clouds across the sky flared-up like a horses tail, within 02 – 03 days, it will rain (my better estimation is within 24 – 48 hours). On 16 July 2009 (Thursday) at 0600 hours, I observed these types of clouds scattered in a blue sky. It did sprinkle within a couple days but rained the evening of 21 July 2009 (Tuesday).
Update: 04 January 2015 – I’ve used the Horse Tail Weather Forecaster many times and it’s about 95% accurate for forecasting rain.
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Lightning Distance Formula: Here you’ll easily learn how to estimate the distance of storms heading your way. We’ll use a formula that you can use Anytime Anywhere when there are storms.
The distance between the lightning and your location can be estimated by counting the number of seconds between seeing the lightning flash and hearing the sound of its thunder.
Divide the number of seconds between the flash of lightning and sound of thunder by the constant 05 – always 05. For example the time estimation between the flash and the thunder you estimated 15 seconds. Divide the 15 seconds by 05, this will give you 03. The storm is 03 miles from your location and depending on the winds it may or may not head directly at you.
Now you know how to estimate the distance of a storm that may be headed your way. Also use the formula I gave you to estimate wind speed (see Wind Speed Formulas) so you know its approximate arrival time.
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Pet Earthquake Forecaster: In many of the Newsletters, I gave you HUNDREDS of survival tricks used by them super savvy critters from dirt to plants to insects to small & big game. And them smart critters, namely dogs & cats, know when the big one is coming – an earthquake. Los Angeles is well known for frequent tremors to damaging & killer earthquakes. Remember on 17 January 1994 when a major earthquake hit Los Angeles and major concrete bridges collapsed?
What if I told you critters like dogs knew an earthquake was coming hours and days ahead of time too! And get this, hours and days before an earthquake, plenty of dogs go AWOL from their homes, evading to safer ground. According to Californian geologist Jim Burkeman, he predicts earthquakes with 75% accuracy. How?
On a daily basis he goes through the classified ads for missing pets. He annotates his findings. When there’s a spike (sudden increase) in classified ads for missing pets, that’s an indicator that a quake may hit. Jim Burkeman has been doing this for more than 30-years.
Dogs & cats come up missing all over the place in that particular region of California. With all them dogs, & cats evading for safer ground, they are missing thus their owners place classified ads to have them returned.
Sure the local dog-pound will usually retrieve their share of evading dogs & cats and they have their average daily headcount but when that daily ‘dog & cat’ headcount is quadrupled, odds are all them dogs & cats didn’t come up missing for just the heck of it. Their super keen senses are telling them and YOU that an earthquake is coming very soon.
Anyway, John Burkeman’s figures of an over abundant number of missing dogs & cats indicate a possible earthquake in some cases he’s accurately predicted earthquakes up to 03-weeks in advance!
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Red Sky Weather Forecasting: “Red sky in the morning, sailors warning; red sky at night, sailors delight!”
Even the Bible has a similar forecast with respect to red skies and here’s the exact quote: “When it is evening, ye say, It will be fair weather: for the sky is red. And in the morning, It will be foul weather today: for the sky is red and lowering.” This comes from Matthew 16: 2-3. Go ahead and look it up yourself!
A very old and time-proven weather forecasting technique is the red sky. No, it’s not 100% but it’s just another weather forecasting technique to ensure you’re ready Anytime Anywhere!
This technique is used in the northern hemisphere (north of the Equator). Can a red sunset really bring good weather the following day? As you look westward as the sun sets and you see red, you’re looking at 400 miles of atmosphere. That red color that you see represents a storm and with the low pressure and winds, those water-laden clouds are carried to great heights and are seen for hundreds of miles. The storm is hundreds of miles away.
But if you see a red sky at dawn, again you’re looking at miles of atmosphere of water-laden clouds that are hundreds of miles away and may be a threat to you real soon. If you’re looking at sunrise and strong winds are in your face – guess what’s coming your way?
You got it – a storm is brewing and you better make preparations.
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Country Dweller Weather Forecasting: The following weather forecasting technique I found in the book – “The Way It Was – 1876” by Suzanne Hilton. You’ll find that these Country Dweller Weather Forecasting jive with the weather forecasting tricks you already read. OK, let’s start with ‘A pale moon…’
• A pale moon with a hazy outline may forecast rain.
• A red moon and may forecast a windy day coming.
• Chickens kicking-up dirt fluttering in their dust may forecast rain.
• Fish swimming near the surface may forecast rain.
• Frogs croaking more than usual may forecast rain.
• Moles throwing up / kicking out more dirt out of their holes – tunnels may forecast rain.
• Swallow birds flying low and dipping their wings in the water may forecast rain.
• “An evening red and a morning gray will set the traveler on his way… but evening gray and morning red will pour down rain on the pilgrim’s head.”
See Red Sky Weather Forecasting.
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MOST IMPORTANT NOTE: Now that you read & viewed ’13 emergency forecasters of weather’ – You’re Ready Anytime Anywhere. However, before you go out on your next outdoor adventure, please re-read “How To Plan Your Outdoor Adventure!”
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