Show Weather Observations Scientific American These signs and omens originated when the people lived in the couRtr their observations covered great dis distances distances and it was almost obligatory on OK them to watch the weather Those who live in the cit city are unable to note these signs and are therefore inclined to rid ridicule ridicule them Having left the city for the country many years ago I have hae observed cloSe cloSely 1 ly the weather and have noted the lot fol following lowing Xo No 1 I have almost al always always ways correct and were one situated so as t tO be hourly hourI cognizant of the tern tem temperature and the force and direction tt of the wind over oer a large territory as Is the Washington weather bureau I believe it would prove invariably so It applies In this locality from about Oct 1 to tolIa toMay lIa May 1 1 Double the hours or days from the clearing of a storm to the next calm 11 perIod the result wil one t to foretell very lery closel closely tIme the coming of the next storm The sooner r the calm tile the sooner the storm 2 When the sun sets sels between dark banks of clouds with a yellowish red cast and appearing to me like alt an evil eye there will be a heavy heay southeast storm the following day 3 The same general appearance wRen when the sun rises but with a reddish Yel Yellow ye low cast Is shortly followed by a heavy easterly storm 4 Long and amI narroW clouds in tM the west late in the day havin having the ap appearance appearance of condensed fog anti and belew dark banks of clouds hi hc almost sure Are sign of storm the following day When hen the electric lights ligh of the city viewed from an elevation In the suburbs scintillate with a peculiar d dia l mO brilliancy a storm sh shortly rUy follows There are other indefinable siges whereby like a sixth sense one can foretell time the approach of a storm or Ute tho clearing away of a pre present ent storm m |