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Weather proverbs

Henry Harrison Chase Dunwoody

193 pages~3 hr 51 min read42 chapters$4.99
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Red sky at night, and a hundred other old sayings, get put to the test here. Henry Dunwoody collects popular weather proverbs from around the world and weighs them against real meteorology. A charming, useful catalog of folk forecasting. Find out which weather sayings actually hold true and which do not.

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42 chapters

  1. 1WEATHER PROVERBS.
  2. 2TABLE OF CONTENTS.
  3. 3CIRCULAR CALLING FOR REPORTS OF POPULAR WEATHER SAYINGS.
  4. 4PART I.
  5. 5POPULAR WEATHER PROGNOSTICS.
  6. 6CYCLONE PROGNOSTICS.
  7. 7WEDGE-SHAPED ISOBAR PROGNOSTICS.
  8. 8STRAIGHT ISOBAR PROGNOSTICS.
  9. 9ANTICYCLONE PROGNOSTICS.
  10. 10CONCLUSION.
  11. 11DISCUSSION.
  12. 12POPULAR WEATHER PROVERBS AND PROGNOSTICS.
  13. 13PROVERBS RELATING TO ANIMALS.
  14. 14PROVERBS RELATING TO BIRDS.
  15. 15PROVERBS RELATING TO CLOUDS.
  16. 16PROVERBS RELATING TO DEW.
  17. 17PROVERBS RELATING TO FISH.
  18. 18PROVERBS RELATING TO FOG OR MIST.

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