School: Naomh Ruadhan, Gallach (roll number 1828)
- Location:
- Gallach, Co. na Gaillimhe
- Teacher: D. Ó Neachtain
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- The Signs of Rain
The general signs of rain which everybody know are dull black clouds which sometimes form one solid mass and maybe turn a dark blue colour with a strip of white at the bottom. Those signs are not very harmful and hardly ever results in a full wet day. A haziness in the air which shades the suns light and makes the orb appear whitish or ill-defined or at night if the moon and the stars grow dim and a ring incircles the former rain will follow. If the suns ray appears like Moses horns or shorn of its rays or goes down in a bank of clouds on the horizon rain is to be expected. If the moon looks pale or dim or is surrounded by a ring or by white clouds mixed with small patches the latter called "cow track". Then we are certain to get rain
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