222 On the Popular Weather Prognostics of Scotland. 
when properly developed, it was always followed by a storm or 
gale within twenty-four hours. It is called “ Pocky Cloud” by 
our sailors. On this occasion, the gale began early next morning, . 
and continued till 2 p.m.”—Rev, C. Clouston, Sandwick Manse. 1 
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Pocky Cloud, from drawing by Mr Clouston. 
(11.) Cirrus at right angles to the wind is regarded as a sign 
of rain. 
(12.) The farmers in Berwickshire say that a long stripe of 
cloud sometimes called by them a salmon, sometimes called Noah’s 
ark, when it stretches through the atmosphere in an east and west 
direction is a sign of stormy weather, but when it stretches in a 
north and south direction, is the sign of dry weather. 
(13.) Along the north shore of the Solway, from Dumfries to 
Gretna, a lurid appearance in the eastern or south-eastern horizon, 
called from its direction ‘a Carlisle Sky,” is thought a sure sign 
of coming rain. They describe it as lurid and yet yellowish, and 
the common saying is,— 
‘* The Carle sky 
Keeps not the head dry.” 
(14.) In Kincardine of Monteith, and in all that district of 
country, the reflection from the clouds of the furnaces of the 
Devon and the Carron (to the east) foretells rain next day. 
(15.) The glare of the distant Ayrshire ironworks being seen 
at night from Cumbrae or Rothesay, rain is expected next day. 
Similar prognostics are common all over Scotland, 
(16.) A mackerel sky denotes fair weather for that day, but — 
predicts rain a day or two after. 
