Our WeatherJ.M. Dent & sons, Limited, 1912 - 131 pages |
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altitude ALTO STRATUS amount of moisture anticyclone appearance ascent atmosphere average balloon Barograph barometer become Ben Nevis British Isles bulb called causes cent cirro-stratus Cirrus clouds cold column considerable cool crops CUMULO-NIMBUS Cumulus cyclone Daily Weather damp Degrees depression dew point direction districts earth England evaporation fall feet forecasts freezing point frost Glaisher glass grains Greenwich ground heat height hemisphere inches instrument isobars Isothermal map James Glaisher January July June KITE layers lightning liquid lower Magdeburg hemispheres maximum thermometer mean temperature mercury meteorograph Meteorological miles night observations Observatory obtained occurs Ox Eye plants pressure rain rain-gauge rainfall range of temperature rays readings records relative humidity rise Royal Meteorological Society saturated seen Six's Thermometer snow soil Song Thrush stations storm STRATUS summer sunshine surface temperature thunderstorm tube ture upper usually vapour vessel warm wind winter
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Page 121 - The hollow winds begin to blow ; The clouds look black, the glass is low ; The soot falls down, the spaniels sleep ; And spiders from their cobwebs peep. Last night the sun went pale to bed, The Moon in halos hid her head ; The boding shepherd heaves a sigh, For see ! a rainbow spans the sky. The walls are damp, the ditches smell. Closed is the pink-eyed pimpernel. Hark ! how the chairs and tables crack ; Old Betty's joints are on the rack, Her corns with shooting pains torment her, And to her bed...
Page 122 - Quits mutton bones, on grass to feast; And see yon rooks, how odd their flight! They imitate the gliding kite; Or seem precipitate to fall, As if they felt the piercing ball. 'Twill surely rain; I see, with sorrow, Our jaunt must be put off to-morrow.
Page 121 - Loud quack the ducks, the peacocks cry The distant hills are looking nigh. How restless are the snorting swine — The busy flies disturb the kine. Low o'er the grass the swallow wings; The cricket, too, how loud it sings. Puss on the hearth, with .velvet paws, Sits smoothing o'er her whiskered jaws.
Page 121 - The hollow winds begin to blow, The clouds look black, the glass is low, The soot falls down, the spaniels sleep, And spiders from their cobwebs peep.
Page 122 - And nimbly catch the incautious flies. The glowworms, numerous and bright, Illumed the dewy dell last night. At dusk the squalid toad was seen. Hopping and crawling o'er the green : The whirling wind, the dust obeys, And in the rapid eddy plays ; The frog has changed his yellow vest, And in a russet coat is dressed.
Page 122 - Quits mutton bones on grass to feast. And, see yon rooks, how odd their flight, They imitate the gliding kite. And seem precipitate to fall, As if they felt the piercing ball. 'Twill surely rain — 1 see with sorrow Our jaunt must be put off tomorrow.
Page 88 - Stand with your back to the wind and the barometer will be lower on your left hand than on your right.
Page 118 - The next will be a rainy day. If the sun goes pale to bed 'Twill rain to-morrow, it is said.
Page 118 - Can you explain this omen? Phys. A rainbow can only occur when the clouds containing or depositing the rain are opposite to the sun — and in the evening the rainbow is in the east, and in the morning in the west; and as our heavy rains, in this climate, are usually brought by the westerly...
Page 39 - ... supported in a metal zodiacal frame. A card being inserted in one of the grooves according to the season of the year, the Sun, when shining, burns away or chars the surface at the points on which its image successively falls, and so gives a record of the duration of bright sunshine. The Jordan Recorder consists of a cylindrical box, on the inside of which is placed a sheet of sensitive cyanotype paper. The sunlight, which is admitted into the box by two small apertures, acts on the paper and,...