Predicting Weather

-HYATT VERRILL

• Unusual twinkling of stars: double horns to the moon:, halos around stars or moon: "wind dogs - increasing wind, or rain with a liability of wind

• Wind shifting from west to east - increase of wind front the other direction

• Rosy sky at sunset - fine weather

• Sickly, greenish - colored sunset - Wind and rain

• Dark red or crimson sunset - rain

• Bright-yellow sky at sunset - wind

• Pale-yellow, or saffron sunset - rain

• Mixed red and yellow sunset - rain and squally weather

• Remarkably clear atmosphere with distant objects standing above the water and seemingly in air - wind, usually from the northwest, and often rain

• Heavy dews - Erie weather

• Fogs - change in weather and little wind

• Misty clouds on hills, remaining stationary, increasing or descending - rain and wind

• Misty clouds on hills, rising or dispersing - fairer weather

• Red morning sky - bad weather and wind

• Gray morning sky - fine weather

• High dawn (dawn seen above a bank of clouds) - wind

• Low dawn (daylight breaking close to the horizon) - fair

• Soft, delicate clouds - fair and light winds

• Hard - edged, oily clouds-wind

• Dark, gloomy sky - windy

• Light, bright sky - fine weather

• Small, inky clouds - rain

• Light "scud,"' or small clouds moving across heavier clouds - Wind and rain

• Light, scudding clouds by themselves - wind and dry weather

• High, tipper clouds scudding past moon or stars in a different direction from the lower cloud masses - change of wind

• Fine weather followed by light streaks, wisps, or mottled patches of distant clouds that increase and join - change

• Haze that becomes murky and clouds the sky - change to bad weather

• Light, delicate colors, with soft edged clouds - fine weather

• Brilliant, or gaudy, colors and sharp, hard-edged clouds - rain and wind

• Mackerel sky (small, separate, white clouds covering the sky) - wet weather

• "Mares' tails" (long, wispy, curved, isolated clouds against a blue sky) - wind

• Rainbow early in the morning - bad weather

• Rainbow in afternoon - fair