WIND AND STORM

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• #1050

  A broom falling across the doorway, or chairs set crosswise, is the sign of a storm.

  Stratham, N. H.
• #1051

  If a cloud and wind are coming, the wind will last.

  Trinity Bay, N. F.
• #1052

  If a cloud looks as if it had been picked by a hen,
  Get ready to reef your topsails then.

  Mansfield, O.
• #1053

  Clothes hanging about the rigging will bring wind.

  Newfoundland.
• #1054

  Blue blazes in a coal fire mean a storm.

  Eastern Massachusetts.
• #1055

  When wood on the fire makes a peculiar hissing noise, it is said “to tread snow,” and there will soon be a storm.

  Salem, Mass.
• #1056

  If the stove-lids get red-hot when the fire is first made, it is a sure sign of a storm of some kind.

  Cambridge, Mass.
• #1057

  If the vessel is becalmed, throw a halfpenny overboard to buy wind.

  Harbor Grace, N. F.
• #1058

  If the halyard lies against the mast, the wind will increase.

  Newfoundland
• #1059

  Sticking a knife in the mainmast produces wind.

  Conception Bay, N. F.
• #1060

  Table-knives turning blue denote that a northeast wind is coming.

  Placentia Bay, N. F.
• #1061

  Strange lights at sea are seen before a northeast gale.

  Newfoundland
• #1062

  To see Northern Lights denotes that south wind and a storm will come inside of forty-eight hours.

  Massachusetts.
• #1063

  If the fall “line storm” clears off warm, it signifies that storms through that fall and winter will clear away with mild weather, i. e., the way in which the storm closes at the autumnal equinox will rule the weather following storms until the vernal equinox storm. Then the same saying applies to the “line-storm” of March, and the spring and summer after storms is foretold.

  The contrary would happen if cool weather followed the line storm.

  Weathersfield, Vt.
• #1064

  In the fall, if the sky is red in the west at sunset, a gale is coming from the northeast.

  Newfoundland.
• #1065

  If a sky turn gray, the wind will be north.

  Newfoundland.
• #1066

  First rise after low
  Foretells stronger blow.

• #1067

  Sailors putting the end of the sheet overboard will bring wind. Hitting it three times across the thwart stops the wind.

  Topsail Bay, N. F.
• #1068

  The day of the month of the first snowstorm indicates the number of storms in the year.

  Eastern Massachusetts.
• #1069

  If the stars are remarkably clear and bright, it is likely there will be a storm the next day.

• #1070

  Stars in a circle around the moon foretell a storm in the same number of days as there are stars.

  Maine, Massachusetts, and New York.
• #1071

  Stars shooting about portend wind.

  Heart’s Delight, N. F.
• #1072

  A shooting star shows that wind is coming from the direction toward which it goes.

  Conception Bay, New Harbor, N. F.
• #1073

  If stars are in thick patches before twelve at night, it is a sign that wind will come next day from that quarter.

  Hearts Delight, Trinity Bay, N. F.
• #1074

  For the sun to rise and go into a cloud means a storm.

  Massachusetts.
• #1075

  If the sun sets in a bank, the wind will be in the “western bank.”

  Bay Roberts, N. F.
• #1076

  If the bottom of the tea-kettle is white when taken from the stove, it indicates a snowstorm.

  Peabody, Mass.
• #1077

  The sun “getting up water” denotes wind and dirty weather.

  Scilly Cove, N. F.
• #1078

  Whistle for a breeze.

  Universal among sailors.
• #1079

  Whistling of wind in blocks aloft is a sign of a heavy storm.

  Conception Bay, N. F.