164 Prognostics of the Weather. 



" When winds continue to vary for a few hours, as if it 

 were to try in what point they should settle, and afterwards 

 begin to blow constant, they continue for many days. 



" If the south wind begins for two or three days, the 

 north wind will blow suddenly after it ; but if the north 

 wind blows for the same number of days, the south will not 

 rise till after the east has blown some time. 



" Whatever wind begins to blow in the morning, usually 

 continues longer than that which rises in the evening." 



Mr. Worlidge observes, " that if the wind be east, or 

 north-east, in the fore-part of the summer, the weather is 

 likely to continue dry ; and if westward, towards the end of 

 the summer, then will it also continue dry : if in great rains 

 the winds rise or fall, it signifies that the rain will forthwith 

 cease. 



" If the colours of the rainbow tend more to red than 

 any other colour, wind follows ; if green or blue are pre- 

 dominant, rain." 



The Signs of a Tempest are these. 



" FOR ere the rising winds begin to roar, 

 The working sea advances to the shore ; 

 Soft whispers run along the leafy woods, 

 And mountains whistle to the murm'ring floods ; 

 And chaff with eddying winds is toss'd around, 

 And dancing leaves are lifted from the ground, 

 And floating feathers on the water play." 



DRTDEN'S Virgil. 



Prognostics continued. 



20th RULE. If the last eighteen days of February, and 

 the first ten days of March,* are for the most part rainy, 

 then the spring and summer quarters will be so too ; and I 

 never knew a great drought, but it entered in at that 

 season. 



21st Rule. If the latter end of October, and beginning 

 of November are for the most part warm, and rainy, then 



* Old style. 



