In the summer of 1902, I was able to erect two experimental stations on two forts at Strasbourg for the purpose of closer study.
Remember to get the weather in your damn book-weather is very important.
If I write that it was a cold day, you can be sure I know it was a cold day because Pepys told us.
The sky is blue today, Max, and there is a big long cloud, and it's stretched out, like a rope. At the end of it, the sun is like a yellow hole. . .
On the periscope . . . . What a beautiful view. Cloud cover over Florida - three to four tenths near the eastern coast. Obscured up to Hatteras . . . I can see [lake] Okeechobee. Identify Andros Island. Identify the reefs.
Beautiful, see the cloud, the cloud appear. Beautiful, see the rain, the rain draw near.
Keep at least one window pane clean to check the weather. Once when I didn't do this I sent the kids off with umbrellas for six weeks straight.
Snow is so common that I have omitted to note its falling at least two days out of Three.
Even rain and wind and stormy clouds bring joy, just as knowing animals and flowers and where they live.
I like being swept up in weather and observing it as something beautiful and giant.
Take a straw and throw it up into the air, you may see by that which way the wind is.
I always start everything with the weather, because the weather is the first thing that I notice when I wake up in the morning.
We consider it tedious to talk of the weather, and yet there is nothing more important.
If you would feel the full force of a tempest, take up your residence on the top of Mount Washington, or at the Highland Light, inTruro.
If you were a cloud, and sailed up there, You'd sail on water as blue as air, And you'd see me here in the fields and say: 'Doesn't the sky look green today?
Weather is a literary specialty, and no untrained hand can turn out a good article on it
For many years I was a self-appointed inspector of snowstorms and rainstorms and did my duty faithfully, though I never received payment for it.
