FOR FOUL AND WET WEATHER.
10. If the sun rise pale, or pale-red, or even dark-blue, there will be rain during the day.
11. If the clouds at sunrise be red, there will be rain the following day.
12. If at sunrise many dark clouds are seen in the west, and remain, there will be rain on that day.
13. If the sun rise covered with a dark-spotted cloud; rain the same day.
14. If in the winter there be a red sky at sunrise; steady rain same day; in summer, showers and wind.
15. If the sun set in dark heavy clouds; rain next day.
16. But if it rain directly; wind the following day.
17. If the sun set pale or purple; rain or wind the following day.
18. If the sun set, and there be a very red sky in the east, wind; in the south-east, rain.
19. If long strips of clouds drive at a slow rate high in the air, and gradually become larger, the sky having been previously clear, there will be wet.
20. If there be many falling stars on a clear evening, in the summer, there will be thunder.
21. If there be a change of the wind from the north-west or west, to the south-west or south, or else from the north-east or east, to the south-east or south; wet.
22. If the sun burn more than usual, or there be a halo round the sun during fine weather; wet.
23. If it rain and the sun shine; showers.
24. If the full moon rise pale; wet.
25. If the full moon rise red; wind.
26. If the stars appear larger, and closer, and flicker; rain or wind.
27. If small white clouds, with rough edges, be seen to gather together; there will be wind.
28. Before thunder it often begins to blow.
29. If there be a fleecy sky, unless driving north-west; wet.
30. If clouds at different heights float in different directions.
31. If an assemblage of large or small clouds spread out, or become thicker and darker.
32. If clouds suddenly appear in the south.
33. If the lower clouds drive more from the south than those above.
34. If there be rain about two hours after sunrise, it will be followed by showers.
35. If there be a damp fog or mist, accompanied with wind; wet.
36. If there be a halo round the moon, in fine weather; and the larger the circle, the nearer the rain.
37. If the stars above 45 degrees, especially the North Star, flicker strongly and appear closer than usual, there will be rain.
38. If the morning be clear and sunny, in summer or autumn, there will be rain.
39. If the fields in the morning be covered with a heavy wet fog, it will generally rain within two or three days.
40. “A rainbow in the morning is the shepherd’s warning.”