Is it true there’s always a local who knows the weather better than the forecast?

In my case, it was my grandfather. The forecast would say sunshine all day and he’d casually go, “Tomorrow it’s going to rain. Probably in the afternoon.” And then it would rain. In the afternoon. Like clockwork.

I don’t know what kind of black-belt sky reading that was. Some mix of cloud patterns, wind direction, humidity in the air, maybe the way the birds were flying. I tried to decode it once. Failed miserably.

On these islands, some older locals don’t check apps. They look at the horizon. They feel the wind. They smell the air. And somehow they beat satellites.

Is it scientific? Probably not.

Is it accurate? Way more often than it should be.

We joke about the weather being unpredictable. But there’s always one guy quietly predicting it better than everyone else.