 | Fore and aft seamanship - 1878 - 34 pages
...dawn " is when the day breaks on or near the horizon, the first streaks of light being very low down. 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 ""... | |
 | Almanacs, American - 1879 - 384 pages
...W Admiral Fitzroy. 257 14 Th cates fine weather. When the sky is of a sickly-looking greenish hue. A dark, gloomy blue sky is windy, but a light, bright blue sky indi258 15 Fr wind or rain may be expected. — Ibid. =59 16 Sa 260 '7 S 15th Sunday after Trinity.... | |
 | Squire Thornton Stratford Lecky - Marine sciences - 1881 - 682 pages
..."Soft looking or delicate clouds foretell fine weather, with moderate or light breezes : hard edged oily-looking clouds, — wind. A dark, gloomy blue...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... | |
 | Agriculture - 1862 - 612 pages
...from or near the horizon, fair weather may be anticipated. Soft-looking mid delicate clouds foretel fine weather, with moderate or light breezes ; hardedged oily-looking clouds, wind. A dark gloomylooking blue sky foretells wind; but a bright light blue sky a continuance of fair weather. Generally,... | |
 | Thrift book - Home economics - 1882 - 672 pages
...the morning, bad weather or much wind (perhaps rain) ; a grey sky in the morning, fine weather ; a high dawn, wind ; a low dawn, fair weather. Soft-looking...clouds foretell fine weather, with moderate or light bree2es; hard-edged, oily-looking clouds, wind. A dark, gloomy, blue sky is windy ; but a light, bright... | |
 | Enquirer - 1884 - 458 pages
...CONTEMPTIBLE THAN THE BETRAYAL OF A FRILND. POSITIVE PEOPLE ARE OFTEN SUPERLATIVELY WRONG. 339 1941. Soft-looking or Delicate Clouds foretell fine weather,...but a light, bright blue sky indicates fine weather. 1942. A Bright Yellow Sky at sunset presages wind ; pale yellow, wet. 1943. Small, Inky-looking Clouds... | |
 | Howard Patterson - Navigation - 1887 - 474 pages
...also rain; a gray sky in the morning, fine weather; a high dawn, wind ; a low dawn, fair weather, f Soft-looking or delicate clouds foretell fine weather,...but a light, bright blue sky indicates fine weather. Generally, the itofter clouds look, the less wind (but perhaps more rain) may be expected ; and the... | |
 | Howard Patterson - Navigation - 1885 - 188 pages
...sky in the morning — bad weather, much wind and likely rain ; a grey sky in the morning — fine weather; soft-looking or delicate clouds foretell...or light breezes ; hard-edged, oily-looking clouds indicate wind ; a dark, gloomy blue sky is windy ; a light bright-blue sky — light breezes, and indications... | |
 | sir Frederick George D. Bedford - 1885 - 628 pages
...sky in the morning — fine weather; a high 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... | |
 | William John Loftie - Ocean travel - 1888 - 662 pages
...rain); a grey sky in the morning and a low dawn — fine weather; a high dawn — wind. Soft looking or delicate clouds foretell fine weather, with moderate...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... | |
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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... 
