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elleng

(137,774 posts) Mon Jun 7, 2021, 10:47 AM Jun 2021

Anyone ELSE see pink sky @ 5:30 a.m, southern MD?

(I 'jumped' out of bed to catch it.)

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Anyone ELSE see pink sky @ 5:30 a.m, southern MD? (Original Post) elleng Jun 2021 OP

Ain't that purty? soothsayer Jun 2021 #1

What's that old saying? Yonnie3 Jun 2021 #2

Right, heard that, but nothing but 'partly cloudy' elleng Jun 2021 #3

Shakespeare had this in a play Yonnie3 Jun 2021 #4

William Shakespeare Venus & Adonis Lines 409 - 480 elleng Jun 2021 #5

ahh, not a play Yonnie3 Jun 2021 #6

So was the Wasteland!!! elleng Jun 2021 #7

soothsayer

(38,601 posts)

1. Ain't that purty?

Reply to elleng (Original post)

Mon Jun 7, 2021, 10:50 AM

Jun 2021

Yonnie3

(18,305 posts)

2. What's that old saying?

Reply to elleng (Original post)

Mon Jun 7, 2021, 10:59 AM

Jun 2021

Red sky at night
sailor's delight
Red sky in morning
sailor take warning.

elleng

(137,774 posts)

3. Right, heard that, but nothing but 'partly cloudy'

Reply to Yonnie3 (Reply #2)

Mon Jun 7, 2021, 11:02 AM

Jun 2021

forecast until TOMORROW @ 5 p.m.

Yonnie3

(18,305 posts)

4. Shakespeare had this in a play

Reply to elleng (Reply #3)

Mon Jun 7, 2021, 11:15 AM

Jun 2021

“Like a red morn that ever yet betokened, Wreck to the seaman, tempest to the field, Sorrow to the shepherds, woe unto the birds, Gusts and foul flaws to herdmen and to herds.”

In the Bible, (Matthew XVI: 2-3,) Jesus said, “When in 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.”

It has been around a while.

Decided to look it up and at the Library of Congress website found a discussion. An interesting diversion this afternoon.

https://www.loc.gov/everyday-mysteries/item/is-the-old-adage-red-sky-at-night-sailors-delight-red-sky-in-morning-sailors-warning-true-or-is-it-just-an-old-wives-tale/