The first requisite of style is choice of words, and this comes under the head of Diction, the property of style which has reference to the words and phrases used in speaking and writing. The secret of literary skill from any standpoint consist... Read more of DICTION at Speaking Writing.com

Privacy

Home - Storms - Weather Folklore - Barometer Guide - Meteorological Instruments

Most Viewed

Clouds Large Like Rocks Great Showers
Fair Weather For A Week
Clouds In Summer Or Harvent
Clouds: Small And Round Like A Dappley-grey With A North-wind Fair Weather For 2 Or 3 Days
If In The New Moon Rain In The Old
If Cloudy And It Soon Decrease Certain Fair Weather
If In The Old Rain In The New
When The Wind Turns To North East
If Large Clouds Decrease Fair Weather
Mists If They Rise In Low Ground And Soon Vanish } Fair Weather

Least Viewed

Mists A General Mist Before The Sun Rises Near The Full Moon Fair Weather
If Small Clouds Increase Much Rain
If It Begins To Rain From The South
Mists If They Rise To The Hill-tops } Rain In A Day Or Two
If The Sun Rise Red And Firey Wind And Rain
Winds Observe That In Eight Years' As Many Wet Years As Dry
If Two Such Clouds Arise One On Either Hand It Is Time To Make Haste To Shelter
If October And November Are Full Of Snow And Frost
Spring And Summer
Winter Time

Clouds: Small And Round Like A Dappley-grey With A North-wind Fair Weather For 2 Or 3 Days

THIS is differently expressed by other Authors. My Lord Bacon tells
us, that if Clouds appear white, and drive to the N. W. it is a Sign
of several Days fair Weather.

OUR old English Almanacks have a Maxim to this Purpose.

If woolly Fleeces spread the Heavenly Way,
Be sure no Rain disturbs the Summer Day.

AND Pliny to the same Purpose.[c]

[Footnote c: Ubi supra.]

SI Sol oriens cingetur Orbe, & postea totus defluxerit aequaliter,
Serenitatem dabit.

That is,

IF the rising Sun be incompassed with an Iris, or Circle of white
Clouds, and they equally fly away, this is a Sign of fair Weather.

THERE is another English Proverb worth remembering.

In the Decay of the Moon,
A cloudy Morning bodes a fair Afternoon.

Next: Clouds Large Like Rocks Great Showers
Previous: If Cloudy And It Soon Decrease Certain Fair Weather

Report
Privacy

SHARE

BOOKMARK

Viewed 827