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Arab Weather Prognostics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 March 2011

Edward Robertson
Affiliation:
University College of North Wales, Bangor

Extract

The majority of Arab weather prognostics are, as might be expected, concerned with the winter season, when the changeable weather gives scope for forecasting. The summer months in most Arabic-speaking lands are rainless, and except for wind changes offer little or no field for the activity of the weather prognosticator. The sun and moon, the stars, the rainbow, mist, dew, thunder and lightning, birds and insects all form constituents in Arabic weather forecasts.

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Copyright © The Royal Asiatic Society 1930

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