Have you ever heard this phrase?

Did you grow up with any weather-related folk-wisdom?

Hi Fire-Eaters!

I grew up knowing, “Red sky at night, a sailor’s delight. Red sky in morning, a sailor takes warning.”

I have no idea where I first heard, “Red sky at night, a sailor’s delight. Red sky in morning, a sailor takes warning”, but it was probably from one of my Idaho grandmas. They were full of cool folk wisdom.

I do remember hearing Cary Grant’s character recite it at the end of Charade to Audrey Hepburn’s character and being thrilled. (If you have not seen this 1963 thriller, you need to watch it this weekend. It’s a superb film that holds up incredibly well.)

I have also found this bit of wisdom to be very reliable for predicting the weather.

Have you ever heard this phrase? Do you have any other weather-related folk wisdom like this? Let me know!

Cheers,

Jason

P.S. One of my favorite illustrators,

Jett Allen

has recently started a Substack newsletter. Their newsletter is about film. Each week, they create a comic essay about a film. Sometimes the film is a classic. This week's issue is about M3gan. Jett always has intriguing insights, and they look at films through the prism of their own experience as a transgender artist. Check it out!

Jett also drew a host of great essays on Medium. One is about LA’s feral parrots, and they wrote a series of comic essays about Tarot. (These comics are all behind a paywall, but often you can view a handful of Medium posts for free each month.)