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there I waited the breaking of the storm, I soon observed that the 
residents did not seem specially alarmed, and that the terrible cloud 
remained almost stationary, and the wind, while becoming pretty 
fresh, did not seem particularly violent. The cloud appeared to be 
only about three or four hundred feet distant to the northwest, and 
seemed to extend from the ground upward, at an angle of about 85 
to go degrees, to a mile or more in height. It appeared absolutely 
dense and solid with folds, shaded from a kind of dirty white to 
darker, interspersed with quite black streaks running perpendicular. 
I stood around for about half an hour, and all the outcome was 
a light shower of rain in very large drops, and by nine o’clock the 
sun was shining and the cloud had nearly disappeared. 
Speaking generally of clouds in the Northwest, I would desig- 
nate them as of the Strato-Cumulus class—extended, lumpy, or what 
we term thunder clouds. ‘They are often very attractive from the 
standpoint of the admirer of the grand and wonderful in Nature, 
but to the farmer who is looking forward to reaping an abundant 
harvest of No. 1 hard these sights are less attractive, and more 
likely to bring visions of being ‘hailed out,” and consequently 
heavy loss. I have never witnessed a sky free of clouds in the 
Northwest, but I understand they are clearer after the weather turns 
cold in the fall, 
