What is the origin of weather quote - "Mare's tails and mackerel scales make tall ships take in their sails ?
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The answer lies with finding out what 'mare's tail's' and 'mackeral scales' are. That is what your teacher wants you to do.\n\n\nThey are types of high level cloud. Mares tails are a those thin whipsy clouds. Mackeral scales form a continuous bank of flat cloud with undulations or regular gaps.\n\nBoth signify cold conditions and strong winds up high and in low latitudes often signal an approaching high level trough with rain and winds.
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Sounds like it is from "War of the Worlds". Maybe the following:\n\n"Yet across the gulf of space, minds that are to our minds as ours are to those of the beasts that perish, intellects vast and cool and unsympathetic, regarded this earth with envious eyes, and slowly and surely drew their plans against us."
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Wind is the roughly horizontal movement of air (as opposed to an air current) caused by uneven heating of the Earth's surface. It occurs at all scales, from local breezes generated by heating of land surfaces and lasting tens of minutes to global winds resulting from solar heating of the Earth. The two major influences on the atmospheric circulation are the differential heating between the equator and the poles, and the rotation of the planet (Coriolis effect).\n\nGiven a difference in barometric pressure between two air masses, a wind will arise between the two which tends to flow from the area of high pressure to the area of low pressure until the two air masses are at the same pressure, although these flows will be modified by the Coriolis effect in the extratropics.\n\nWinds can be classified either by their scale, the kinds of forces which cause them (according to the atmospheric equations of motion), or the geographic regions in which they exist. There are global winds, such as the wind belts which exist between the atmospheric circulation cells. There are upper-level winds, such as the jet streams. There are synoptic-scale winds that result from pressure differences in surface air masses in the middle latitudes, and there are winds that come about as a consequence of geographic features such as the sea breeze. Mesoscale winds are those which act on a local scale, such as gust fronts. At the smallest scale are the microscale winds which blow on a scale of only tens to hundreds of metres and are essentially unpredictable, such as dust devils and microbursts.\n\nYou could get more information from the link below...
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"To be under the weather is to be unwell. This comes again from a maritime source. In the old days, when a sailor was unwell, he was sent down below to help his recovery, under the deck and away from the weather."
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Mid Atlantic Drift. AKA Gulf Stream It pushes warm water from the gulf of mexico up into the waters surrounding the UK.
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My clothing is still,\nwhen I traverse the earth, \nor leave a house,\nor stir up the seas.\nThis lofty air recedes me \nwith my trappings \nbeyond the heroes bend,\nthen widely, \nthe strength of the clouds\nhides me from folk.\nSounding loud and singing bright, \nthey sing of my armour, \nyet I nearby am not\nto water and earth\nto sailor's breath.\n\n \n\n\n\n\n(A note on transcription of pesky OE letters: The above poem is rendered as a jpeg in order to show the OE letters, thorn and eth. That option isn't feasible for the following essay and thus I have switched to using 'th' for both.)\n\n \n\nSome Observations\nA common answer given for this riddle is "Swan".(1) The symbolism in this riddle has some interesting connections with that of the Swan in Celtic cultures. (Don't mix up the Anglo-Saxons with the Celts. These are different peoples. But in some places, they lived in close proximity to each other leading to the possibility of cross-fertilization.)\n\nTo the Celts, the swan was related to music. In the above riddle there are several lines devoted to singing. The swan also commanded the three elements mentioned in the riddle: air (hea lyft, wolcna strengu), water (wado drefe, flode), and earth (hrusan trede, foldan). And the swan was also linked to travel between this world and the Otherworld. (2) The final word of the riddle, "gæst" means both "guest" and "spirit,soul,ghost." (3)\n\nA bit further afield than the Celts, in Serbian folklore, the swan was conected to the vile (sg. vila, remember them from the fourth Harry Potter book?).(4) The vile were woodland nymphs which seems a bit of a stretch, but one word in the poem might indicate a connection. "Hryste" is listed in Clark Hall as meaning either jewels or "hillock or wooded immenence."\n\nLL
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A name given by sailors to the to the latitudes between 40° and 50° because of the westerly winds.
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The Seven Seas is a figurative term referring to all the seas and oceans of the world. Some folks will tell you the seven seas are the Arctic, the Antarctic, the North and South Pacific, the North and the South Atlantic and the Indian Ocean. But the term was never meant to be taken literally.\nThe phrase was popularized by Rudyard Kipling who used it as the title of a volume of poems first published in 1896. Kipling himself said the term might be regarded as referring to the seven oceans (named above) even though it was a very old figurative name for all the waters of the world.\nThe Seven Seas was part of the vernacular of several nations long before some of the oceans named were known to the inhabitants of Europe and Asia. The Seven Seas are referred to in the literature of the ancient Hindus, Chinese, Persians, Romans and other nations. In each case, the term simply referred to different bodies of water. Sometimes it even referred to mythical seas. To the Persians, the Seven Seas were the streams forming the Oxus River; the Hindus used the term for the bodies of water in the Punjab. There is a group of salt-water lagoons near Venice, Italy, that the Romans called septem maria, the Latin phrase for Seven Seas.\nAnd don't forget, seven is a pretty special number. The world was formed in seven days. There are seven wonders of the world, seven deadly sins, seven gifts of the Holy Spirit, seven hills of Rome, seventh heaven and don't forget Mark McGwire hit 70 home runs this year. Some even consider seven a perfect number.\nWho am I to disagree?\n\nHowever here is a list of the "seven seas" given by various people of various times and of experts of different fields.\n\nMany experts and encyclopedias will list the modern Seven Seas as the: \n\nArctic \nAntarctic \nNorth and South Atlantic \nNorth and the South Pacific \nand the Indian Ocean \n\nDuring the Age of Discovery (1450-1650), some list the Seven Seas as the then seven navigable seas of the world: \n\nAtlantic \nArctic \nIndian \nand Pacific Oceans \nand the \nMediterranean Sea, \nthe Caribbean Sea, \nand the Gulf of Mexico \n\nWhile others disagree and report the ancient Seven Seas to be the: \n\nMediterranean Sea \nRed Sea \nBlack Sea \nAdriatic Sea \nCaspian Sea \nand the \nPersian Gulf \nand the Indian Ocean
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"It's not how big it is, it's what you do with it..."\n"It's not the size of the boat, it's the motion of the ocean..."
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Wind is the roughly horizontal movement of air (as opposed to an air current) caused by uneven heating of the Earth's surface. It occurs at all scales, from local breezes generated by heating of land surfaces and lasting tens of minutes to global winds resulting from solar heating of the Earth. The two major influences on the atmospheric circulation are the differential heating between the equator and the poles, and the rotation of the planet (Coriolis effect).\n\nGiven a difference in barometric pressure between two air masses, a wind will arise between the two which tends to flow from the area of high pressure to the area of low pressure until the two air masses are at the same pressure, although these flows will be modified by the Coriolis effect in the extratropics.\n\nWinds can be classified either by their scale, the kinds of forces which cause them (according to the atmospheric equations of motion), or the geographic regions in which they exist. There are global winds, such as the wind belts which exist between the atmospheric circulation cells. There are upper-level winds, such as the jet streams. There are synoptic-scale winds that result from pressure differences in surface air masses in the middle latitudes, and there are winds that come about as a consequence of geographic features such as the sea breeze. Mesoscale winds are those which act on a local scale, such as gust fronts. At the smallest scale are the microscale winds which blow on a scale of only tens to hundreds of metres and are essentially unpredictable, such as dust devils and microbursts.
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It is unlikely you will find a reliable answer.  The Farmer's Almanac may help because it uses data from  many years to predict typical weather for a period of time.  The relatively new field of Chaotic Math uses a butterfly as its logo, because just the flapping of a butterfly's wings would be enough to upset long-range predictions of weather given initially perfect data.  The effect was discovered when long range weather forcasts were being studied on a super-computer that sometimes trunkated "unnecessary decimal places."  Congratulations and I hope you have great weather.
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Cutty sark is 18th century Scots for "short shirt": cutty (a cognate of the English language word cut) is "short, stumpy"; sark (from Old English serce "shirt") is a chemise, undergarment or nightshirt. Hyphenated, Cutty-sark was a nickname for a fictional character invented by Robert Burns, and from there has become part of an idiom in colloquial English, especially the Scottish English dialect.\n\nIn Burns' poem Tam o' Shanter, the drunken Tam happens upon a witches' ceilidh. Among the dancing figures is a particularly beautiful young witch named Nanny (Scots pet-form of Anna), "ae winsome wench and wawlie" (line 164). She is wearing a sark which fitted her as a child but is now rather too short for her:\n\nCutty Sark: A British sailing ship, built 1869 in Scotland (by coincidence, the highest and smallest sail on a square rigged ship such as the Cutty Sark was called the "Ladies Pantalettes") and also the tall ships' race named after it. \nCutty Sark (drink): A Scotch whisky, founded 1923; since the label sports a picture of the ship, it will have been named directly from this. \nCutty Sark (band): A German heavy metal band which produced its first record in 1984. \n\nYou can find the scotch in any liquor store. Beyond that, youre on your own. :)
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Wind is the roughly horizontal movement of air (as opposed to an air current) caused by uneven heating of the Earth's surface. It occurs at all scales, from local breezes generated by heating of land surfaces and lasting tens of minutes to global winds resulting from solar heating of the Earth. The two major influences on the atmospheric circulation are the differential heating between the equator and the poles, and the rotation of the planet (Coriolis effect).\n\nGiven a difference in barometric pressure between two air masses, a wind will arise between the two which tends to flow from the area of high pressure to the area of low pressure until the two air masses are at the same pressure, although these flows will be modified by the Coriolis effect in the extratropics.\n\nWinds can be classified either by their scale, the kinds of forces which cause them (according to the atmospheric equations of motion), or the geographic regions in which they exist. There are global winds, such as the wind belts which exist between the atmospheric circulation cells. There are upper-level winds, such as the jet streams. There are synoptic-scale winds that result from pressure differences in surface air masses in the middle latitudes, and there are winds that come about as a consequence of geographic features such as the sea breeze. Mesoscale winds are those which act on a local scale, such as gust fronts. At the smallest scale are the microscale winds which blow on a scale of only tens to hundreds of metres and are essentially unpredictable, such as dust devils and microbursts.\n\nWinds can also shape landforms, via a variety of eolian processes.
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hi the phrase standing on the shoulders of giants was first recorded in the twelfth century and is attributed to bernard of chantres, it is due to john of salisbury writing the following Metalogicon that it was attributed to him "Bernard of Chartres used to say that we are like dwarfs on the shoulders of giants, so that we can see more than they, and things at a greater distance, not by virtue of any sharpness on sight on our part, or any physical distinction, but because we are carried high and raised up by their giant size." hope this helps
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west·er    audio  (wstr)  KEY  \n\nNOUN:\n\n    A strong wind coming from the west.\n\nintr.v.\nwest·ered , west·er·ing , west·ers\n\n    To move westward. Used of the sun, the moon, or a star.
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It's "trade winds".\nIt's the wind created by the movement of air from north or south towards the equator.
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ok i'm sorry, but rather than write it all out, please go here:  http://www.loc.gov/rr/scitech/mysteries/weather-sailor.html\n\nsmooth sailing