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How does the saying go "Pink sky at night..."

I was told by my parents a long time ago:

"Red sky at night, shepherds delight
Red sky in the morning, shepherds warning"

Hasn't always been true... but that's a beautiful night sky photo along with the following one of the morning 😊.

We're going to have another hot one today here where I am, around 30°C~31° C... maybe a tad higher. Having a week away in Cornwall from Saturday... bound to rain then 🤣
 
I think that's a saying that actually has some basis in fact. The weather systems in the UK at least generally move west-to-east with the prevailing wind. A red sunset implies there's dry, dust-laden air and high pressure to the west, which means that the high-pressure system is heading towards us and hence the next day is likely to have good weather. Red sky in the morning implies the high pressure is in the east and hence is heading away (but that doesn't necessarily mean bad weather follows). Of course the Lake District quote also comes into mind: "How do you know when it's about to start raining in the Lake District? Look out the window and see that it isn't raining at the moment."

Of course it's not guaranteed but the red sky at night one is better than some similar phrases.
 
I always refer to pink sky at night sailors delight, pink sky in the morning sailors take warning. I wonder what the original saying is?
 
duke said:
I always refer to pink sky at night sailors delight, pink sky in the morning sailors take warning. I wonder what the original saying is?
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Possibly depends on whether your local area had more sailors or shepherds!

I'd only ever heard the red/shepherd variant before but I wouldn't be surprised if there is regional variation just across the UK, let alone internationally.
 
Well... here's Google 🤣
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Do you want the *exact science* of how atmospheric dust and light sscattering create these red colours? 😎 Google knows 😜😉
 
Or as the wags used to say

Red sky at night, barns alight.
 
I seem to remember "learning" many years ago that the first part had some science behind it, as explained by Dr Al, but the second part had simply been added on to make it more catchy.
 
Dr.Al said:
Of course the Lake District quote also comes into mind: "How do you know when it's about to start raining in the Lake District? Look out the window and see that it isn't raining at the moment."
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No.1 daughter lives in Carlisle and that's about par. That said, when we've visited her we've generally had glorious weather - Rob
 
Woodbloke said:
No.1 daughter lives in Carlisle and that's about par. That said, when we've visited her we've generally had glorious weather
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We used to go to the Lake District quite regularly before my other half got M.E. In all honesty we were generally very lucky too (although I still find the quote amusing): I think it rained for two days in total for all the times we went there. One of my colleagues kept saying he should book the same week we did as it always rained when he went there.
 
Dr.Al said:
We used to go to the Lake District quite regularly before my other half got M.E. In all honesty we were generally very lucky too (although I still find the quote amusing): I think it rained for two days in total for all the times we went there. One of my colleagues kept saying he should book the same week we did as it always rained when he went there.
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Whenever she sends us a Christmas or birthday card the back of the envelope invariably says in one corner "from oop narth" and underneath is a small, hand penned emoji of a thunder cloud and torrential rain:ROFLMAO: - Rob
 
Dr.Al said:
Possibly depends on whether your local area had more sailors or shepherds!

I'd only ever heard the red/shepherd variant before but I wouldn't be surprised if there is regional variation just across the UK, let alone internationally.
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Just to provide balance/another take to this, I've always known it as red sky at night, shepherds delight, red sky in morning, sailors warning! 🤣
 
Red sky at night, the farmer’s burning the stubble. Ah, how I yearn for those years when countryside fires were set deliberately and weren’t wild.
 
AndyP said:
Just back from a week on the north Breton coast. We were treated to this every night from the sitting room. With no wifi and barely a phone signal there was not much else to do than sit and take in the views.View attachment 57188
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No doubt there was plenty to do in the seventies under the same conditions 😂
 
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