My dad told me to always look west after a storm in Tucson for the best clouds, and yesterday I finally saw a perfect mammatus formation.

Has anyone else had a specific piece of location-based cloud advice that actually paid off?

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Remember my grandpa saying to watch the eastern sky over Lake Michigan just before sunset in fall. He called them "herringbone skies." Tbh, I thought it was just an old story until I saw it myself a few years back. Those long, straight rows of clouds looked exactly like fish bones. Honestly, it's wild how that specific local knowledge gets passed down.

kaimiller3mo ago

Always figured old weather sayings were just made up stuff. Then I got caught in a downpour after ignoring "red sky at morning" one time. Now I pay attention when someone shares a local tip like that. Your grandpa's herringbone clouds sound way cooler than some basic rain warning though.

finleythomas23d ago

Ha, I love that @spencer_bell. It's funny how those little sayings stick with you even when you don't believe them at first. I've noticed the same thing with old timers talking about frost patterns on windows. My grandad used to say when the frost starts in the bottom corners first, you're in for a hard freeze. I blew it off until I saw it happen three times in a row one winter. Just goes to show, people figured things out before weather apps existed.