Determining the weather.

Watch the ants, it seems like they move there eggs into the house or to higher ground before a rain. Roundy cotton ball clouds, it's going to hail soon near by.
 
It'll probably be within the hour.

There are a few things that signal low pressure:

Achy joints.

Cows laying down in a field (their knee joints ache before a storm; no kidding)

Birds swooping low as they lose updraft

Plow winds: that cold wind that tears through the area just before a storm, usually accompanied by that unique prolonged whishing sound through the trees.

The sound of airplanes quite loud although far away

Smoke hanging low

Kids and animals acting up (my great-grandmother attributed this to their more sensitive eardrums...guess what? She was right)

The bottoms of clouds being torn off and hanging below the main body of the cloud like tinsel

Wind changing direction momentarily as it races toward the center of the low.
 
Roundy cotton ball clouds, it's going to hail soon near by.
Careful with this one.

These indicate fairly stable weather, due to the mildly turbulent air preventing enough moisture to gather into rain.
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Mammatus clouds indicate hail...although possibly not in your area. Sometimes nothing comes out of these.
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And here's a hail line, showing how damn dramatic these can be. Look for that sharp contrast between the edge of the cloud like it was carved out of plaster:

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