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SOME QUEER WEATHER NOTIONS

... tricks ready. A red evening sky may foretell rain, hurricane, frost oi thunder. Lore in Verse. In the Highlands a green sky a much surer omen of a rainy day than red dawn. It seems a pity that the feeble verse about the red sky is so much better know than ...

Published: Thursday 09 March 1950
Newspaper: Dundee Courier
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 643 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

Children of Eastern School, Broughty Ferry, were in high spirits when they started studies on Monday after the ..

... THE ANGUS SKY The causes of the Aurora Borealis or Northern Lights (writes Colin Gibson) are as difficult to understand as the effects are hard to describe. Watching last Saturday night's display, which towards midnight dominated the whole sky and dimmed ...

CURLING THEN AND NOW

... The Scots Magazine (Is). Looking back the old days, he remembers when weather wise eyes would study the sky every night, for a clear starry sky spelled frost and the chance of a game on the morrow. Nowadays modern ice _ rinks have removed all doubts ...

Published: Thursday 28 December 1950
Newspaper: Dundee Courier
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 159 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

WATCH TO-NIGHT'S SKY

... WATCH TO-NIGHT'S SKY Given a clear western sky to-night the conjunction of the moon with Venus should provide an interesting spectacle. The actual conjunction occurs in the afternoon, so that by evening the three days moon will have passed to the east ...

Published: Monday 09 April 1951
Newspaper: Dundee Courier
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 60 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

Oudook VW

... Oudook The cynics say that the old weather saws-- Red sky at night, shepherd's delight, etc., have little .to commend them beyond the fact that they rhyme. Maybe, but a colleague living in the near-London countryside pins his faith in them--and forecasts ...

Heard in Monifieth

... most of Britain's leading pmfessionals. The hit of the evening, however, came in the second half, when the film was Red Sky at Night, the now widely acclaimed picture on sheep breeding taken at A. A. Whyte's farm, The Spot*, Glenprosen, and made by 1 ...

Back From Siberia

... weekend from Siberia where he saw the 35- second total eclipse of the sun, will introduce film of the happening in “The Sky at Night” on Monday. “I've only brought back stills,” says Patrick, “but a colleague of mine, Dr Ron Maddison, of Keele University ...

CARNOUSTIE’S CHRISTMAS

... have been few to surpass the tremendous flood of coloured lights which beautified the entire sky on Wednesday evening. But if it is true that “a red sky at night is a shepherd’s delight ” the shepherds must have a love for wind, for the day was ushered ...

Veek-Fnd Television

... Saturday —0. K.? \s—Saturday Night at the Movies : Murder at the Mardi Gras,’ starring Didi Conn, David Groh ,—The Val Doonican Show )—The Rockford Files —News; Weather (—Sportscene : Football and Boxing )—Saturday Night at the Mill 8.8. C. 2 )—Open ...

8.8. C. 2

... 55-—Closedown 3.ss—Saturday Cinema : * That Certain Feeling® starring Bob Hope, Eva Marie Saint, George Sanders s.3s—The Sky at Night s.ss—Network — Factory and Family 6.2s—lndoors Outdoors 6.so—Assignment 7.2o—News and Sport; Weather 7.3s—Grapevine RB ...

8.8. C. 2

... 8.8. C. 2 7.4o—Open University I.3o—Closedown 2 90—Saturday Cinema : ‘ Elephant Walk starring Elizabeth Taylor I.oo—The Sky at Night 1 10—Grapevine — The Seli-help Show 5 o—Network, from BBC East s.3o—Assignment 6.oo—The Rugby League Year 6.so—News and ...

5.8. C. 2

... 5.8. C. 2 10—Open University 15—Wimbledon 79 20—News and Sport; Weather 15—The Sky at Night, ‘ X-Rays from Space ’ 35—Grapevine 25—Word For Word 9.oo—The ildllywood Colman Greats : Ronald 50—Wimbledon 79. Match of the Day 15—News on 2; Weather 50—Midnight ...