Weather rock

Instructions for "analyzing" weather with the weather stone

• If the rock is wet, it's raining.
• If the rock is swinging, the wind is blowing.
• If the rock casts a shadow, the sun is shining.
• If the rock does not cast a shadow and is not wet, the sky is cloudy.
• If the rock is difficult to see, it is foggy.
• If the rock is white, it is snowing.
• If the rock is coated with ice, there is a frost.
• If the ice is thick, it's a heavy frost.
• If the rock is bouncing, there is an earthquake.
• If the rock is under water, there is a flood.
• If the rock is warm, it is sunny.
• If the rock is missing, there was a tornado.
• If the rock is wet and swinging violently, there is a hurricane.
• If the rock can be felt but not seen, it is night time.
• If the rock has white splats on it, watch out for birds.
• If there are two rocks, stop drinking, you are drunk.

String Variation

• If the string is on fire then there is a bushfire.
• If the string is cut a Wendigo has passed by.

  Locations

• The weather rock at Fort Drum, a US military site in New York
• In the Nature Area at Camp Rotary, a Boy Scout summer camp located in Clare, Michigan
• Camp Wolfeboro, a Boy Scout summer camp in Arnold, California
• Camp Yawgoog, a Boy Scout summer camp at the Yawgoog Scout Reservation in Rockville, Rhode Island
• The Donner's Pass Historic Site, near Lake Tahoe, CA
• Bloomington Zoo in Central Illinois
• In Rhododendron, Oregon, near the Zigzag River off Road 10
• On Spangler Road near Highway 213 in Oregon City, Oregon
• At the Pancake Bay Trading Post, near Pancake Bay Provincial Park, Ontario, Canada
• Boron, California, in front of Domingo's Mexican and Seafood Restaurant, a famous astronaut hangout near Edwards Air Force Base
• Seven Ranges Boy Scout Reservation in Kensington, Ohio
• Firelands Scout Reservation in Wakeman, Ohio
• Outside the McDonald's restaurant in Lithgow, NSW, Australia
• Tenterfield in NSW, Australia
• Oostdorp, the Netherlands
• Nature Camp in Vesuvius, Virginia
• Whippi Dip ice cream store, at the Pontaluna road in Spring Lake, MI, near Hoffmaster State Park
• Lobster Pot Tea-room on the island of Berneray in the Outer Hebrides, Scotland
• Lynnhaven Inlet Fishing Pier in Virginia Beach
• The Halyards Hotel in Port Alfred, South Africa
• The Kia Kima Scout Reservation in Hardy, Arkansas