Part 14

23. If it rain and the sun shine; showers.

24. If the full moon rise pale; wet.

25. If the full moon rise red; wind.

26. If the stars appear larger, and closer, and flicker; rain or wind.

27. If small white clouds, with rough edges, be seen to gather together; there will be wind.

28. Before thunder it often begins to blow.

29. If there be a fleecy sky, unless driving north-west; wet.

30. If clouds at different heights float in different directions.

31. If an assemblage of large or small clouds spread out, or become thicker and darker.

32. If clouds suddenly appear in the south.

33. If the lower clouds drive more from the south than those above.

34. If there be rain about two hours after sunrise, it will be followed by showers.

35. If there be a damp fog or mist, accompanied with wind; wet.

36. If there be a halo round the moon, in fine weather; and the larger the circle, the nearer the rain.

37. If the stars above 45 degrees, especially the North Star, flicker strongly and appear closer than usual, there will be rain.

38. If the morning be clear and sunny, in summer or autumn, there will be rain.

39. If the fields in the morning be covered with a heavy wet fog, it will generally rain within two or three days.

40. “A rainbow in the morning is the shepherd’s warning.”

FOR STORM.

41. If the clouds be of different heights, the sky above being grayish or dirty blue, with hardly any wind stirring; the wind, however, changing from W. to S., or sometimes to S. E., without perceptibly increasing in force.

42. If there be a clouded sky, and dark clouds driving fast (either with the wind or more from the south), under the higher clouds, violent gusts of wind.

43. If there be long points, tails, or feathers hanging from thunder or rain-clouds, five, six, or more degrees above the horizon, with little wind in summer, thunder may be expected; but the storm will be generally of short duration.

44. If there be a light blue sky, with thin, light, flying clouds, whilst the wind goes to the south without much increase in force; or a dirty-blue sky, where no clouds are to be seen; storm.

45. If the sun be seen double, or more times reflected in the clouds, expect a heavy storm.

46. If the sun set with a very red sky in the east, expect stormy wind.

47. If two or three rings be seen round the moon, which are spotted and spread out, expect a storm of long continuance.

48. If porpoises and whales sport about ships.

49. If sea-gulls and other birds fly inland.