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Show CLOUDS as WEATHER SIGNALS MARINERS, farmers and aviators look at the sky before they begin their tasks of tha day. The aailor of a email craft holds his hand up to the wind and considers the character char-acter of clouds and sky before be seta forth upon the highway ef the sea. The fanner reads the aama overhead lima la before he starts mowine? moving is taken Into consideration. Soft, woolly clouds accompany good weather, while those with hard edges generally ahow that the wind is blowing. blow-ing. The storm clouds, with which everyone is familiar, ahow ragged, frayed edges, and are forerunners fore-runners of wind and rain. Soft clouds, while generally indicating little or no wind, may indicate indi-cate that ahowers can be expeeted. er ploughing and tha aviator looks at these signs ; of the sky before he starts np for a flight The information furnished in advance by the weather bureau also decides the events of the day for traveler as well aa for tba farmer. With a little lit-tle practice even the city dweller can become an amateur Judge of weather conditions as predicted by the sky. A rosy sky at sunset indicates fine weather, a red sunset means fair weather. But a dark, or Indian red sunset means rain, aa also does a pale yellow sunset Remarkable c learn est of visibility visibil-ity in which distant objects can be extraordinarily well aeon, accompanied by unusual audibility ef distant sounds, indicates approaching wind or rain, aa also does a sickly greenish, or aa orange or copper-colored sunset Tawny or copper- colored clouds and those of bright yellow mean that a wind is due. At sunrise look at the sky and clouds. t the dawn comes low with its first indications just above the horiaon, the day will be fine. A gray dawn means fair weather, while a red or opal-tinted opal-tinted dawn indicate rain and wind; such is the indication also of a dark red dawn,-except that the conditions are likely to be severe. When the - dawn come high above a bank of clouda there ia strong likelihood thst a windy day will follow. These are the principal aky aignala of warning, but they are by no means infallible, being aet for tha time by the conditions of temperature, moisture mois-ture in the air and atmospheric pressure. Certain kinds of clouds may be read aa weather weath-er signals when the direction in which they are |