This organ in persons of weak and irritable constitutions is often deranged at the change of the weather, and its digestive powers are more under atmospherical influence than people are commonly aware of. Before storms it is particularly liable to uneasy sensations.
Sweating Stones.
A sweating stone indicates rain.
Sweating Wall.
A sweating wall indicates rain.
Tables and Chairs.
The cracking of tables and chairs indicates rain or frost.
Thunder.
Abundance depends upon sour milk; meaning that thunder-storms aid crops.
Thunder-storms almost always occur when the weather is hot for the season; they are generally caused by a cold wind coming over a place where the air is much heated. They do not cool the air; it is the wind that brings them which makes the weather cooler. If a thunder-storm comes up from the east, the weather will not be cooler after it. This will not happen till another storm comes up from the west. Thunder-storms are more violent the greater the difference of temperature between the two currents of wind which produce them.