Red Sky at night, shepherd’s delight.
Matthew, 16.2-3
Red Sky in the morning, shepherd’s warning.
If your weather system predominately comes from the west, then according to the Met Office there is some truth to this line in the Bible. A red sky appears when dust and other small particles are trapped in the atmosphere by high pressure. So when it appears at night it means fair weather is probably headed towards you, whereas in the morning the high pressure has already or is moving east, taking away the ‘good’ weather and making way for wet and windy weather that comes with a low pressure system.
The life of B 
Very pretty sky! We have wonderful ones here, as we almost always have dust in the air. I like the quote/saying too. I’ve heard it for many years.
Here’s my entry:
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how wonderful to have the colour in the sky on a regular basis
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Mesmerizing click!
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We have a similar saying, but “Red sky in the morning, sailor take warning. Red sky at night, sailor’s delight.” I can assure you that version didn’t originate in Arizona. 🤣🤣🤣
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This might be a misunderstanding. the Shepherd guards his flocks by night so red sky at night means the night is going to be fine, in britain by the next day rain is on it’s way.
Red sky in the morning likely means a fine day followed by rain next night hence the Shepherd’s warning. not sure how this works in the Holy Land.
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ooh interesting you have the reverse view on when it will be fine and when it won’t
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I love the silhouettes against that red sky Becky 😀
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I see from other comments that this is a sunrise. I don’t think I have ever seen a sky that red in the morning.
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It was extraordinary, and plenty of rain followed later in the day!
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Fabulous sky! Here’s mine for today: https://suejudd.com/2025/07/04/frilly-red-poppy/
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Thanks Sue, was such a great morning
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excellent!
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Mum taught us that when we were children but I didn’t know it was from the Bible.
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Same here – I just thought it was an old saying until I did the research for this post
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I’m very glad you’ve explained that, as we always use that rule in Adelaide.
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When I was a child in Adelaide a reliable rule of thumb was that we would get Perth’s weather about 3 days later. Not sure if that is still the case.
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sounds like when I used to live in Winchester and my mother was in Dorset – except it took 3 hours then not 3 days!
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I know! We can no longer say that, with different winds blowing the weather in any which direction. I think it’s been about 6 years since we could rely on that, sadly, as they do get warmer winters. Info came out about el Nina and nino and how it separated WA from the rest of us, weather wise. I thought it might return now that we’re in neither of those, but alas…
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ooh that’s such a change
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Kind of hard to get used to, after all these years, but I think everywhere in the world people are having to get seed to different weather patterns.
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That was used, not seed
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fascinating how far around the world this saying has spread and is still used
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A stunning sky, Becky. And thanks for the simple explanation – I might remember that now! https://thesquaresofb.com/2025/07/04/simply-red-4/
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hee hee me also!
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ooh just noticed your link is back to mine, here’s yours https://travelwithintent.com/2025/07/04/simply-floral-belice-valley/
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