The Mountain Man's Trick for Reading a Deadly Storm a Full Day Before It Hits

🔔 Subscribe to learn more about how the mountain men survived in -40° temperatures. Long before weather apps and satellites, the mountain men of the American frontier could look at a clear, harmless-looking sky and know a killer blizzard was coming a full day before it hit. They had no instruments. They had their eyes, and they knew what to look for. This is the lost art of reading the sky in layers. It starts with the high ice, the thin white streaks the old-timers called mares' tails, riding thirty thousand feet up and reaching hundreds of miles ahead of the storm. It runs through the ring around the sun, the falling roof of cloud that tells you how many hours you have left, and finally the strangest sign of all, the two winds that cross overhead and point straight at the heart of the storm. The settlers caught out in the great blizzard of 1888 didn't die because the storm was unbeatable. They died because nothing warned them in time, on a morning that felt like spring. The sky was speaking. They just weren't reading it. Everything in this film still works today, exactly as it did then. The question is whether we still remember how to look up. 📝 Link to sources: https://tinyurl.com/9d4nvurz