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30. Winds almost continually follow the eclipses of the 

 moon, and fair weather the eclipses of the sun ; rain comes 

 after neither. 



31. From the conjunctions of any of the planets, but 

 only the sun, you may expect winds both before and after ; 

 from their conjunctions with the sun, fair weather. 



32. At the rising of the Pleiades and Hyades come 

 showers of rain, but calm ones ; after the rising of Arcturus 

 and Orion, tempests. 



33. Returning and shooting stars (as we call them) sig 

 nify winds to come from that place whence they run, or 

 are shot ; but if they fly from several, or contrary parts, it 

 is a sign of great approaching storms of wind and rain. 



34. When such little stars as those which are called 

 Aselli are not seen generally all over the sky, it foreshows 

 great tempests and rain within some few days ; but if they 

 be seen in some places, and not in other some, it foreshows 

 winds only, and that suddenly. 



35. The sky, when it is all over bright, in a new r moon, 

 or at the fourth rising of it, portends fair weather for many 

 days; if it be all over dark, it foreshows rain, if partly 

 dark, and partly fair, it portends wind of that side where 

 the darkness is seen ; but if it grow dark on a sudden, 

 without either cloud or mist to dim the brightness of the 

 stars, there are great and rough tempests a breeding. 



36. If an entire circle encloseth a planet, or any of the 

 greater stars, it foreshows wind ; if it be a broken circle, 

 wind from those parts where the circle is deficient. 



37. When the thunder is more than the lightnings, there 

 will be great winds ; but if the lightnings be thick amidst 

 the thundering, it foreshows thick showers, with great 

 drops. 



38. Morning thunders signify wind, midday thunders 

 rain. 



39. Bellowing thunders, which do as it were pass along, 

 presage winds, and those which make a sharp and unequal 

 noise, presage storms both of wind and rain. 



40. When it lightens in a clear sky, winds are at hand, 

 and rain from the part where it lightens ; but if it lightens 

 in diverse parts, there will follow cruel and horrid tempests. 



41. If it lightens in the cold quarters of the heavens, 

 namely, the east and north, hail will follow; if in the 

 warmer, namely, south and west, we shall have rain and a 

 warm sky. 



42. Great heats after the summer solstice, and commonly 



