7. Driving scud, with increasing humidity.
Wood’s Holl, Mass.
Easterly storms are preceded by rapidly rising barometer and temperature, cirrus clouds in early morning moving slowly from the northwest twelve or fourteen hours before approach of storm, and unusually high tides.
Southerly storms by rapidly falling barometer, rising temperature, clouds moving rapidly from the southwest, heavy ocean-swell, and tides running stronger, but not as high as before easterly storms.
Westerly storms by falling barometer, clouds moving in all directions, ocean greatly agitated, with low tides.
Sea birds come into harbor six or eight hours before storm arrives, and remain until it is over.
Wytheville, Va.
Slowly falling barometer, rising temperature, east to southeast winds veering to west.
In winter snow storms are preceded by northeast winds, rising temperature, and slow fall of barometer.
Well-defined cirro-cumulus moving from any direction indicate rain.