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Speaker 1: Welcome to Stuff to Blow your Mind from how Stuff

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Speaker 1: Works dot com. Hey, welcome to Stuff to Blow your Mind.

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Speaker 1: My name is Robert Lamb, and my name is Julie Douglas. Julie,

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Speaker 1: what's your favorite non scientific weather forecasting tool one that

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Speaker 1: we're going to talk about today? The whole like I

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Speaker 1: feel it in my bones? That one's an interesting because

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Speaker 1: I do feel it in my bones and particularly my

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Speaker 1: knee if there's there's some sort of weather change coming

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Speaker 1: you do. So yesterday when that ominous front was rolling

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Speaker 1: through Atlanta and we were looking out the windows, were

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Speaker 1: you were your knees like buckling? No, my my right knee,

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Speaker 1: which is the one that speaks to me. It was

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Speaker 1: fine then, But earlier in the week, like the day

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Speaker 1: before and the day before that, that's when I felt

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Speaker 1: it and I was thinking, oh, well, maybe the thing

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Speaker 1: that they always say is true, and that means that

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Speaker 1: some sort of weather front is coming in. Is that right?

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Speaker 1: Me an old gaming injury. No, it is a dancing injury,

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Speaker 1: actually dancing in the field. You know, there's a whole

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Speaker 1: you know how it goes. I do. My favorite, my

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Speaker 1: current favorite non scientific weather forecasting tool is it has

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Speaker 1: to do with the chalk drawings that I do with

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Speaker 1: my son in the driveway. The more that accumulate, I know,

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Speaker 1: the more likely it is to rain. So once we

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Speaker 1: reached the point where we've covered every foreseeable space with

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Speaker 1: scribbles and elephants, I know that it's got to be

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Speaker 1: about to rain, because it means like two weeks is past. Okay.

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Speaker 1: I like that. It is a method. It's a method.

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Speaker 1: You know. It's based on observational data in my surrounding environment,

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Speaker 1: and I look to it and I make a distinct

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Speaker 1: call about what the weather may or may not do.

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Speaker 1: And this is one of those things whether that we

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Speaker 1: kind of take for granted because we've got the little

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Speaker 1: Doppler radar systems in place, we can easily access information

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Speaker 1: about the weather whenever we want. But you kind of,

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Speaker 1: if you want to think about whether in really big

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Speaker 1: terms and even cosmic terms, you have to go all

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Speaker 1: the way back to when the atmosphere actually even developed.

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Speaker 1: And we won't go, you know, too deep into this,

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Speaker 1: but just consider for a second that atmosphere that life

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Speaker 1: have back in the earliest of days when the Earth

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Speaker 1: formed really just rudimentary. We're talking about hydrogen and helium

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Speaker 1: hanging out on Earth, and not for very long either,

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Speaker 1: because hydrogen and helium are fast moving molecules, and at

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Speaker 1: that time in Earth's very young history, it was a

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Speaker 1: hot planet, and so they sped up even more in

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Speaker 1: the escape out into space. But then you have much

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Speaker 1: later volcanic activity happening. And with this volcanic activity happening,

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Speaker 1: you have steam escaping right from the volcanoes. You have

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Speaker 1: H two O, you have carbon dioxide, you have ammonia

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Speaker 1: which contains nitrogen, and you begin to see this sort

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Speaker 1: of base stock of the atmosphere building up. And then

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Speaker 1: a bit later you have the carbon dioxide being absorbed

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Speaker 1: by oceans. And this is great because now a bacterium

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Speaker 1: of this energy from the Sun and from the carbon

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Speaker 1: dioxide in the oceans, and it's byproduct as a result

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Speaker 1: is oxygen, and all of a sudden boom, you have

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Speaker 1: the elements for an atmosphere that's right. Currently our atmosphere

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Speaker 1: consists of seventy percent nitrogen oxygen. Then you have point

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Speaker 1: point of seven consists of water, vapor, hydrogen, ozone, neon, helium, crypton,

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Speaker 1: and xenon. Right. Instead, the more that life developed, the

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Speaker 1: more the these molecules were created and came to create

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Speaker 1: this envelope, this atmosphere that we live in, and it

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Speaker 1: became so supportive that it supported complex life, such as

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Speaker 1: say humans that became acutely aware of the tides of wind,

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Speaker 1: about it. Yeah, I mean, indeed, I mean this is

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Speaker 1: the movement of our environment. We live in the atmosphere.

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Speaker 1: We live on the Earth, but we are we're slaves

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Speaker 1: of the atmosphere. And the better we can understand it,

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Speaker 1: the better we can predict it all the better. Now,

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Speaker 1: how long have we been keeping records of what the

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Speaker 1: weather is doing, because obviously we've been obsessing over the

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Speaker 1: UM and because that's when observation stations became more uniform

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Speaker 1: UM record information about hurricanes, and maybe that's why it

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Speaker 1: I mean that's always a concern when you're looking at

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Speaker 1: that the records, the dependable records, only go back so far.

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Speaker 1: But again, we have been uh trying to forecast the

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Speaker 1: the coming of the monsoons, UH, the advance of dangerous

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Speaker 1: weather patterns UM you know, and again this is particularly

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Speaker 1: important for agriculturally bound societies that are depending upon this

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Speaker 1: UH and again, like all of us is as a

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Speaker 1: the surplus of these items, we start warring with each other.

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Speaker 1: So military navigation also becomes key. You need to know

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Speaker 1: so it becomes important from a military standpoint, to be

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Speaker 1: It's important from an agricultural standpoint, and then when you

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Speaker 1: and then compare that to our records over time. What

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Speaker 1: can you turn to? You turn to uh idioms, You

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Speaker 1: turn to time warn lore, um different sayings that are

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Speaker 1: top of that you have the cultural layer, right, so

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Speaker 1: some are not. So we're going to talk about the

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Speaker 1: ones that are actually rooted in in the scientific soundness.

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Speaker 1: Indeed examples where they're scientifically grounded at the route and

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Speaker 1: the game of cultural telephone has not really lost the

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Speaker 1: one out for you. Now. Um, let me get one

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Speaker 1: of my best sailor voices. I guess here, red sky

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Speaker 1: night sailor's delight. There you go. Uh So, of course,

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Speaker 1: And what's behind it, Well, you're seeing a scattering of

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Speaker 1: But if you witness the same scattering of red wavelength

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Speaker 1: Their livelihood depends on it. These sort of signs and

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Speaker 1: if a few different versions of it, now haul out

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Speaker 1: my sailor voice too. Mackerel sky and Mayor's tale will

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Speaker 1: because I don't know what the mackerel sky is, what

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Speaker 1: that ship carries low sails? You're waiting for Grendel to appear, right, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: Like when I first read it, I thought low sails,

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Speaker 1: like maybe that means that there's not enough wind filling

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Speaker 1: mackerel sky known in Germany and France as sheet clouds.

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Speaker 1: These are large is a large, spreading assemblage of clouds

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Speaker 1: that resemble a series of waves or fish scales, with

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Speaker 1: streaks of blue sky peeking out between the puffs. If

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