WEATHER PROPHECY.

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 9 December 1920, Page 3

WEATHER PROPHECY.

The vagaries of the mythical "weather clerk" are not, in the opinion of P. W Homer, writing in ''Meterology," so un^ dependable as ja generally supposed, He maintain* that the following rules are founded on the facts although he withholds the main fact —to which part of the world do they apply ; "If rain commences before daylight it will hold up befqre 8 a.m. ; if it begins about noon, it will Qon* tinue through the afternoon ;if it commences after 9 p.m., it will rain the next day; if it clears off in the night it will rain the next day ; if the wind is far from the north-west or south-west, the storm will be short ; if from the north-east, it will be a hard one ; if from the northwest acold one ; and from the south-west a warm one. If it ceases after 12 a.m.. it will rain next day ; if it ceases before 12 a.m., it will be clear next day. If i\ begins about 5 p.m., it will rain through the night. If raining between 8 and 9 a.m., it will go on till noon, and if not then ceasing will go on till evening.