 | Almanacs, English - 1822 - 440 pages
...announces a fine day. g. In the decay of the moon, A cloudy morning bodes a fair afternoon. g, . • When clouds appear like rocks and towers, The earth's refreshed by frequent showers. 10. The gradual diminution of clouds till they can be no longer seen in the air, is a sign of fine... | |
 | Thomas Ignatius M. Forster - 1824 - 846 pages
...a sign of Wind ; and hence the proverbial verse, Pnllida Luna pluit, rubicunda flat, alba sereptit. The cumulostratus being a state of the clouds going...adage : When Clouds appear like rocks and towers, The Earth 's refreshed by fieqnent Showers. Of several o(her Prognostics of Rain. Many indications of atmospheric... | |
 | Thomas Furly Forster - 1827 - 522 pages
...of Light of any remarkable kind frequently forbode rain, and sometimes storms : at sea We also read, When clouds appear like rocks and towers, The earth's refreshed by frequent showers. The great twainclouds which forerun rain in Sussex are called pillars. Rainbows are said to be signs... | |
 | Meteorology - 1866 - 216 pages
...from rain to fine, but rain and thunder in warm weather, and snowstorms in cold weather. Hence : — " When clouds appear like rocks and towers, The earth's refreshed by frequent showers." VII. The nimbus. This is the true and immediate rain-cloud — shapeless, but with defined outline,... | |
 | Andrew Steinmetz - Meteorology - 1867 - 460 pages
...scales and mares' tails Make lofty ships carry low sails ;" and with respect to the second : — " When clouds appear like rocks and towers, The earth's refreshed by frequent showers." Our winter sky hangs low, and the region below it to the earth is more or less misty. Yet we are not... | |
 | Charles Leeson Prince - Climatic changes - 1871 - 270 pages
...at E., expect cold rain or snow m the course of a few hours, the wind will ultimately back to N. " When clouds appear like rocks and towers The earth's refreshed by frequent showers." When clouds float in different currents of wind the upper current will ultimately prevail. It will... | |
 | Almanacs, American - 1879 - 384 pages
...thunder-storm they are often seen in great magnificence, representing huge towers, rocks and gigantic forms. " When clouds appear like rocks and towers, The earth's refreshed by frequent showers." HOW THE WINTERS IN THE SIERRAS GROW LONGER. Professor Legate has just returned from a trip into the... | |
 | William Roper (Fellow of the Meteorological Society.) - 1883 - 50 pages
...falling lower, rain follows. When the clouds are on hills They come down by the mills. — Ray, 1678. When clouds appear like rocks and towers The earth's refreshed by frequent showers. " Look like the Dutchman to leeward for fine weather." The meaning of this is : — If the clouds in... | |
 | Mottoes - 1896 - 1224 pages
...fleeces spread the heavenly way No rain, be sure, disturbs the summer's day. t. Old Weather Rhyme. the Untrodden Ways. OBSERVATION. u. Old Weather Rhyme. Clouds on clouds, in volumes driven, Curtain round the vault of heaven. v. THOMAS... | |
 | Weather - 1898 - 266 pages
...of showery weather. If the harometer he low, rain is all the more prohahle.— JBNY.NS. ""'"i 8 ar* When clouds appear like rocks and towers, The earth's refreshed by frequent showers. When mountains and cliffs in the clouds appear, Some sudden and violent showers are near. In the morning... | |
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When clouds appear like rocks and towers. The earth's refreshed by frequent showers. 
