When clouds are gathered toward the sun at setting, with a rosy hue, they foretell rain.
If there be red clouds in the west at sunset it will be fair; if the clouds have a tint of purple it will be very fine, or if red bordered with black in the southeast.
Rounded Clouds.
A cloud with rounded top and flattened base carries rainfall on its face.
Red clouds at sunrise indicate storm.
Red clouds at sunrise indicate rain on the following day.
Storm.
Behold there ariseth a little cloud out of the sea like a man’s hand.
Prepare thy chariot and get thee down that the rain stops thee not. And it came to pass in the mean while, that the heaven was black with clouds and wind and there was great rain. (Kings xviii, 44, 45.)
Stratus.