WEATHER WISDOM
Admiral Fitzroy, who invented the barometer declared tiiat the most of the old “saws” regarding weather are reliable and based on common-sense investigation. As a weather expert, he commended an old saying to the effect that the glow of dawn high in the sky denotes wind, and a low dawn fair weather. He told us that the softlooking, delicate clouds mean windfair weather, and hard, ragged ones wind. Mists on hill-top means rain and wind if it stays long or descends —fine weather if it rises and disperses. Rain is due when distant objects look near, as on what is called a good hearing day. And rain is foretold by pigs carrying straws to sties.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 66, Issue 248, 1 August 1946, Page 2
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