 Soft-looking or delicate clouds foretell fine weather, with moderate or light breezes; hard-edged, oily-looking clouds, wind. A dark, gloomy, blue sky is windy; but a light, bright blue sky indicates fine weather. Generally the softer clouds look, the...  The Farmer's Almanac and Calendar - Page 44by Cuthbert William Johnson, William Shaw - 1866Full view - About this book
 | 1860 - 366 pages
...Soft looking or delicate clouds foretell fine weather, with moderate or light breezes ; hard edged, oily-looking clouds, wind. A dark, gloomy, blue sky, is windy ; but a light, bright blue sky indicatei fine weather. Generally, the softer clouds look the less wind (but,... | |
 | Patents - 1855 - 628 pages
...breezes ; hard edged, oily looking clouds, wind. A dark, gloomy, blue sky, is windy ; but a light, bright blue sky, indicates fine weather. Generally,, the softer clouds look, the less wind, (but perhaps more rain) may be expected; and the harder, more "greasy," rolled, tufted,... | |
 | Great Britain. Board of Trade - 1859 - 48 pages
...Soft-looking or delicate clouds foretell fine weather, with moderate or light breezes ; — hard edged oily-looking clouds, wind. A dark, gloomy, blue sky is windy ; — but a light, bright blue sky indicates fine weather. Generally, the softer clouds look, the less wind (but... | |
 | Alfred Henry Alston - Hydrographic surveying - 1860 - 498 pages
...when there are no heavy clouds. ISO " Soft looking, or delicate clouds, foretell fine weather, with moderate or light breezes ; hard-edged, oily-looking...clouds, wind. A dark, gloomy blue sky is windy; but a light, bright blue sky indicates fine weather. Generally, the softer clouds look, the less wind (but... | |
 | Photography - 1863 - 496 pages
...(perhaps rain) ; a grey sky in the morning, fine weather; a high dawn, wind; alow dawn, fair weather, with moderate or light breezes ; hard-edged, oily-looking...clouds, wind. A dark, gloomy, blue sky is windy, but a light bright blue sky indicates fine weather." SITTING FOR A PHOTOGRAPH. — We extract the following... | |
 | John McNeill Boyd - Naval art and science - 1860 - 692 pages
...light breezes ; hard-edged oily -looking clouds, wind. "A dark, gloomy blue sky is windy ; but a light bright blue sky indicates fine weather. " Generally, the softer clouds look, the less wind (but perhaps more rain) may be expected ; and the harder, more 'greasy,' rolled, tufted,... | |
 | Great Britain. Board of Trade - 1860 - 22 pages
...Soft-looking or delicate clouds foretell fine weather, with moderate or light breezes : — hard edged oily-looking clouds, — wind. A dark, gloomy, blue sky is windy ; — but a light, bright blue sky indicates fine weather. Generally, the softer clouds look, the less wind (but... | |
 | Jabez Hogg - Physics - 1861 - 594 pages
...dawn, wind ; a low dawn, fair weather. Soft-looking or delicate clouds foretell fine weather, with moderate or light breezes; hard-edged, oily-looking...clouds, wind. A dark, gloomy, blue sky is windy; but a light, bright blue sky indicates fine weather. Generally the softer clouds look, the less wind (but... | |
 | Charles Tomlinson - Winds - 1861 - 408 pages
...dawn, wind ; a low dawn, fair weather.* Soft-looking or delicate clouds foretell fine weather, with moderate or light breezes ; hard-edged, oily-looking...clouds, wind. A dark, gloomy, blue sky is windy ; but a light, bright blue sky indicates fine weather. General!}', the softer clouds look, the less wind (but... | |
 | Loftus's Almanack for Brewers - 1210 pages
...dawn, wind ; a low dawn, fair weather.* Soft-looking or delicate clouds foretell fine weather, with moderate or light breezes : hard-edged, oily-looking...clouds, wind. A dark, gloomy, blue sky is windy ; but a light, bright blue sky indicates fine weather. A bright yellow sky at sunset presages wind ; a pale... | |
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