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When the wind comes up from a southerly point, when high, thin clouds, gradually growing thicken, spread over the sky, and the barometer begins to fall, then it is known that a storm is corning.

From The Western United States A Geographical Reader by Fairbanks, Harold W. (Harold Wellman)