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English: This column of text from the 1899 Seattle Star features several historic examples of weather lore.
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WEATHER FORECAST.
Good Pointers for the U.S. Signal Service
[unintelligible text]
If chicks seek shelter, the weather will be wet.
If chickens and other fowls pick their feathers, there will be cloudy and damp weather.
If, during severe frosts, roosters cry very early, the weather will become moderate or even warm.
When ducks bathe and quack rain will surely come, and when they are quiet there will be a thunderstorm.
If geese bathe it will rain.
If a cat searches for a warm place there will be cold weather. If a cat scratches a door, table, or other object with its claws, there will be windy and snowy weather.
If dogs roll in the winter, there will be snow; if in the summer there will be rain.
If mice make their nests above the ground in ricks, the fall will be rainy and prolonged. If they make their nests under ricks upon the ground, the spring will be fair. If they make their nests before the crop is reaped, rainy weather will begin in August, and the fall will be bad.
Fish appear on the surface of the water before rain, and go to the bottom before a strong wind.
Lobsters crawl upon the banks before rainy weather.
If oak lands grow plentiful, the following winter will be severe, and the summer fruitful.
If smoke sinks to the ground and there is no wind, in winter it will be snow, and in summer it will be rain. If smoke rises even during bad weather, fair weather will follow.
If at sunset there are no clouds, the next day will be fair; if the sun sets in clouds, the next day will be cloudy and perhaps rain. If the setting sun is red the next day there will be strong wind.
If the horns of the new moon are long and sharp, then in winter the whole month will be cold, and in summer fair.
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Source https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn87093407/1899-04-04/ed-1/seq-3/ (the Seattle Star)
Author Unknown authorUnknown author

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