Evening and Morning.
Evening red and morning gray
Are sure signs of a fine day.
Evening gray and morning red,
Put on your hat or you’ll wet your head.
Electricity.
Increasing atmospheric electricity oxidizes ammonia in the air and forms nitric acid, which affects milk, thus accounting for souring of milk by thunder.
Hours of Commencing.
If rain commences before daylight, it will hold up before 8 a. m.; if it begins about noon, it will continue through the afternoon; if it commences after 9 p. m., it will rain the next day; if it clears off in the night, it will rain the next day; if the wind is from the northwest or southwest, the storm will be short; if from the northeast, it will be a hard one; if from the northwest, a cold one, and from the southwest a warm one.
If rain ceases after 12 m., it will rain next day.