Weather Forecasting?

Wind before rain, let your topsail fill again. (pronounced TOP-SUL)

Rain before wind, sheets and topsails mind.
What's it mean? If a squall if coming and it starts to blow before you feel any precipitation, the squall will be less severe and short duration.
If you feel rain before the wind pipes up - precip is being thrown out of the storm cell violently; you're likely in for quite a ride! Be ready to shorten sails.

Red Sky at night, sailers delight
Red Sky in the morning, sailers take warning

"Mackeral sky, 2 days dry"
In other words, when the sky looks like fish scales, you have about one or two days before bad weather comes. works about 80% of the time.

Long foretold, long last,
Short warning, soon past.

When the wind shifts against the sun,
Trust it not, for back it will run.

When the sea-hog jumps,
Look out for your pumps.

At sea with low and falling glass,
The greenhorn sleeps like a careless ass.
But when the glass is high and rising,
May soundly sleep the careful wise one.

If the rain before the wind,
Tops'l sheets and halyards mind.
If the wind before the rain,
Soon you may make sail again.

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