You want to have fun, go to central California and tune in on one of the TV weather guessers. Angelo Stalis is the worst of the bunch. He will be telling you current conditions, and if you look on the wall behind him you will see the "graphic readout," and the numbers don't even match. He will be saying that the current temp is 93, the board will read 87, or maybe 99. What a hoot, and waste of time and money...

If I recall, the Boy Scout Manual had a good section on little tricks to help forecast. Things like the "red sky at morning..." Also, a campfire's smoke staying low indicating high barometric pressure, birds heading for the trees, etc. Probably worth a quick look, even if you don't buy one.

Then there are the tarantulas on the move. You see a lot of big hairs spiders on the roads, grab your rain gear...

IfI saw that, there's a good chance I'd just run away, screaming at levels best reserved for pre-pubescent girls. Weather be damned.

You know, if you shoot a tarantula right in the middle of the body with a .22, those hairy legs fly off in all directions. Don't ask me how I know this...

I've noticed that when flies gather on the screens it's about to rain. A ring (halo) around the moon is good sign of rain in the next 24 hours.

For day to day weather reports I gather from the local TV & radio stations & split the difference. When it gets more serious I also check MODOT (Missouri Dept. of Transportation - other states have a variation of this) for road conditions.

I've given up on the long forcast indicators (length of wooly worm hair or animal migration changes.) They don't seem to pan out.

Tim