— It's ________ minus 9 ________ 3 degrees.

— It might be a sunny day.

— I'm afraid you can't. It is closed on Monday.

A

Weather Forecast (天气预报) For Tomorrow

B

    We can get the weather report on the Internet. We can also know it by watching TV or listening to the radio. But how can we know it without TVs, radios or the Internet? Now let me tell you some other ways.

    One way is to study the clouds. In fact, the higher the clouds are, the better the weather will be; the lower the clouds are, the worse the weather will be. If the thick and fluffy(轻软状的) clouds get bigger early in the day, then it will rain. If a sudden, cool and dark thunder­cloud appears, then a storm is about to come.

    Colours in the sky tell us about the weather, too. A golden ring around the moon warns us that a storm is on the way.

The rainbow has a message, too. If the sun is in the west and the rainbow is in the east, the rain will be moving away from you.

    In the Charles F. Johnson Elementary School in New York, there is a special radio. It gives people warnings about bad weather.

    One day, there came a sound from the radio. This sound brought the piece of news: a heavy storm was coming. William Tomic, principal(校长) of the school, asked teachers to bring children indoors and put them in a safe place at once.

    Minutes later, the storm came. However, because of the warning of the radio and the quick work of the principal, no one was hurt.

    "The radio really did work very well.(A)(我们对它的工作感到很满意), "William Tomic said. "The parents were happy as well."

    The U. S. government hopes there will be more such successful stories. It plans to give this kind of radio to all 97, 000 public schools in the country.

    Every year, more than 10, 000 big thunderstorms, 2, 500 floods, 1, 000 tornadoes(龙卷风) and some hurricanes(飓风) take place in the U. S., so the warning radios are very useful. They not only give people warnings about bad weather, but also give warnings about other dangerous  things.