Tomá Kizek / Slovak Environmental Agency (SEA) Weather forecast on the basis of nature observation (3) The article includes concrete advises how to prepare a short-term weather forecast on the basis of animals observation, which are sensitive to weather changes. The author describes various possibilities of weather forecast according to invertebrates, fish and amphibians, birds and mammals conduct. For example, if the weather is about to worsen and it will be raining, ants do not go far from their anthill. If we hear frog males? croaking, the weather on the next day should be nice, the same if the cock crows loudly in the morning. A long-term weather forecast can be made on the basis of honey bees behaviour. If they wall the flight hole in late autumn, we can expect severe winter. |