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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

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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

S W Winds

After a northerly Wind for the most Part two months
or more, and then coming South, there are usually
three or four fair Days at first, and then, on the fourth
or fifth Day, comes Rain, or else the Wind turns North
again, and continues dry.

THIS is likewise a very judicious and very useful Observation, and yet
it is not a difficult matter to account for it. It is a common
Observation, and a very true one, that there is usually fair Weather
before a settled course of Rain. The Winds that bring the dark rainy
Clouds that obscure the Sky, and cause dull cloudy Weather, often raise
these Vapours to such a height, that they are attracted into the cold
Region above our Sight, till being condensed there, they fall down upon
us again in Snow or Rain, according to our Author's Observation.

BUT if, after a seeming Tendency to Rain, there follow several Days of
fine Weather, it is a certain Indication that the Temper of the Air is
altered, and that these Vapours had been driven off before they had
time to condense, which is confirmed by the Change of the Wind on such
Occasions.

ALL these Observations are to be understood in a proper Latitude, and
not strictly and according to the very Letter. For Rain may fall the
sixth or seventh Day, or the Wind may change the second or third.
Besides, a Man who would make use of these Observations in the Country,
must consider attentively the Situation of the Place where he lives,

the bearing of the Sea, Marshes, Ponds, Lakes, Woods, Mountains, Rocks,
&c. For without making proper Allowances for these, all such
Observations on the Weather will be apt to fail him.

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