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   foggy circle around it, it is an indication that broken weather will soon follow. If the weather breaks or clears up on the day of a new moon, or a day or two previous to same, we are sure to have good or bad weather, as the case may be, while that moon lasts, or at least a quarter of it. When the stars shine out brightly and appear very numerous, heavy frost is at hand. When they appear blurred and few in number, they indicate very broken weather.
   The presence of very heavy black clouds mean immediate rain. When clouds appear steam-like, a long spell of unsettled weather is likely to occur. A blue sky and absence of clouds indicate fine weather. The rainbow is also an infallible weather guide. When it is seen in the evening, it is the sign that we are to have a spell of good weather, and when it is seen in the morning it forecasts the opposite.
   The North-wind nearly always brings dry windy weather; the East wind showery weather; the South wind variable weather, the South-West a continuous bad spell of weather. Intense reddening in the sky, at night is

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   1. genre
      1. weather-lore (~6,442)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Mary A. Flynn

   Gender

   Female

   Informant

   Patrick Lynch

   Gender

   Male

   Age

   28

   Address

   Farneigh, Co. Tipperary