Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1886-04-24
WEATHER WISDOM.
HINTS WHICH WILL BE FOUND USE
FUE TO CLOSE OBSERVER.

Signs at Sunrise and a. Sunset-Rainbows
and sun-Dogs-Cicats and Mists-Sig-
nificant Skies-Prophetic Ways of the
Niad-Birds and Animals.
The man who is out OF doors at sunrise
can form pretty accurate opinion of what
the day may he. Ii just before sunrise the
sky specially in the VESTS sufrused with
red, ram generally fo.:ows in the course OF
the day. In winter often snow. If, how
ever. it be frosty weather tine downfall is
som stil,es delayed. IN the other hand. il
the sky b. dull greg, and the sun rises
clear gradually dispensing the vapors, it
will lie fine. If he retire. behind the Clouds,
and there are reddish strelks about, it will
rain. Should tie san, later in the day,
SHINE through a gray watery haze, it will
probably be II rainy night
! Is sunset is .c:y unreliable. Often
beautiful sunst vii! Is :ol owed by a bad
day. After rainy day, suddenly at sun
set, in the far west, will APP ear a magni.i-
cent streak of crimson not oopper-colorl-
this generally foreteils 'nc day. a tinted
halo round the sun at SITTING occurs in long
continued rainy weather y halo round
tfc liiotf- a'laA1 OA-t<tHNc rum
it, is a sure indication of downfall at hand.
Rainbows are unreliable, except they
occur in the morninS when ran KY be
expected. Sul-doss, and fragments OF
priS,natic colors duran tho day, show con
tinued unsct.l,d we ,ther. 4 dazzling
metallic llIster Oh folia during cloudless
day in summer, precedss a change.
SIGNIFICANCE OF CLOUDS AED NIsTS
Huge pile iup ma If white cloud in
blue sky during wiater Indicate snow or
hail If small, dark clouds float below the
upper ones, moving faster than they, rain
will follow, as it will if, in the morning,
pale brown, smoke-I clouds are floating
about Red -tinged clouds high up, at
evening, are followed hy Wind, occasionally
by rain.
Mis.s at evening over low-lying ground,
or near a river, preceie fne AMI warm days
II a mist in the morning clears OF as the
sun gets higher. it will be fine; but if it
settles down again after lifting little, rain
is at hand. No dew in the morning is
mostly followed by rain; and heavy dew
in the evening by z fine dag. Rain follows
two or three consecutive boar froStS \
A shower OF hail in tis day time Is usually
followed by frost at night. II, after rain,
drops Of water still han. on the branches
and twigs, and to window frames, thu ia N
will return: but if they fall, and the wood
work dries, fine weather is at hand.
Stones turn damp before wet; at the
same timo it must be Observed that the fact
of their doing so does no: invariably indi-
cate rain, for they viii do so occasionally
before heat
Smoke descending heavily TO the ground
is syn OF very doubtful weather.
objects at great distances, which are gen
orally indistinctly seen, or even not seen st
all, sometimes loom out clear ard distinct
When this happens, bad weather or change
Of wind ensues a weilknown instance of
this is the isle Of Wight as seen from South
sea IL the opposite shore is clearly seen,
there is rain about II, az night, after be
ing blown out and exposed to the outer air,
the wick of candle continues to smolder
long time, the next day VIII be fine. Green
colored sky betokens unsettled bad weather,
often long continued
PROPHETIC WAYS or THE WIND.
II, on fine day, the dust suddenly rises
in a revolving, spiral column, rain IS near.
The bowling of the wind indic ates, in
most houses, but not Invariably, that down
fall is near. In some houses, owing TO their
construction, the wind always means.
Wherever the wind is at the time of the
vernal equinox March q, and thereaIout>i
that will lie the prevailing wind throughout;
the next three months
II the stars appear unusually numerous,
and the milky way very clearly detinst,
with the surrounding sky dark, or il there
be misty appearance over the stars, rain
is coming; while if there be but few stars,
and those very bright and sparkling, in n
pale steely sky, if viii be fine
Swine, before rain, are unusually noisy
and restless Swallows in fine weather win
fly high. and at the approach Of rain close
to tie ground, but the latter does Dot apply
If the day is cold, in which case they hawk
very low
Common sparrovs washing vigorously in
a puddle on the road, or at the edge OF run
ming water, s a sure sign of rain A baker,
who kept a parrot in the dry atmosphere OF
the take Offices, noticed that a fec hours
before rain the bird took an imaginary
bath, fut.ering. IS IL spIashing water. and
preening Der feathers
If domestic fowls keep out feeding IL rain.
IL viii continue. but If they run under
shelter directly il comes o. there vii proc
ably be only a shower Before rain 90
flies are unusually troublesome in
singing Should nloies, after dry weather,
commence throwing Up their mounds AMI
working b-iskly, rain VIII foslow.-Casse.rs
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