CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Animals can often sense the weather before we can. Let's raise your Weather IQ.

“A lot of animals can detect changes in barometric pressure," Falyn Owens, a wildlife extension biologist with the NC Wildlife Resources Commission, explained. "They usually sort of hunker down or find shelter because they instinctually know that a storm is coming.”

Birds are especially sensitive. They can detect subtle pressure drops and reroute their flight paths to avoid bad weather.

“Birds… sweep around these low-pressure systems because they understand that’s going to be associated with rain and bad weather,” Owens adds.

Some even appear on weather radar as they migrate around approaching storms — nature’s flying forecasters!

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