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New Zealand Graphic, Volume XIX, Issue X, 28 August 1897, Page 295

There is an idea that a dew at night presages a fine day on the morrow. But all the copious dew really indicates is that at the time there is a clear sky, and that there is much difierence between the temperature of the earth and the higher air. Another picturesque delusion is that the snnset and the snnrise have a prophetic significance as to the weather that is to come, whereas a very little observation will satisfy anyone that the indications of the weather at these two moments of the day have no special significance. Another delusion is that the moon affects the weather, and yet a fourth is that a luxurious crop of berries in the autumn forebodes a hard winter.