Red sky at morning fortells a cloudy and possibly rainy day due to the amount of moisture high in the atmosphere.
"Red Sky at morning, sailors take warning. Red sky at night, sailors delight!" There is some truth to this weather lore. In the early morning if the rising sun paints the clouds red, there will probably be rain coming during the day because the moisture is on the way. In the evening if the sunset turns the sky red, the moisture is on the way out and the next day the weather should be nice. This sunset photo was taken at Snowbird ski resort in Utah in Dec. 2005.
. Air can be at different temperatures at different altitudes. If rain meets subfreezing air near the ground it will freeze on contact with any solid surface, it then becomes freezing rain. If enough ice accumulates, an ice storm occurs, this is the most dangerous form of precipitation because of the widespread damage it can cause. If raindrops fall into subfreezing air high enough they will freeze and become little pellets of ice called sleet, which is simply frozen raindrops. If water freezes in the clouds and stays frozen, it will fall in the form of snow. Hail is the 5th form of precipitation, it forms only in huge cumulonimbus (thunderstorm) clouds with strong internal ascending and descending winds.
