*** CABAÑUELAS AND EMPIRICAL METEOROLOGY ***

Long and short term weather forecast in the rural world

Language: Spanish

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  A complete exhibition of all methods used for short and long term weather forecast in the rural world, with special attention to the systems practiced in Hispano-American territories. Cabañuelas, animal and vegetable behavior, types of clouds, winds, observation of stars, the Sun, the Moon and Venus.  132 pages in DIN A4  size with numerous illustrations and black and white colour photographs.

  Price of the work is: 

24 euros

It is sent at home by mail against reimbursement, free of expenses of shipment.  For shipments to countries different from Spain, to consult by e-mail

In order to acquire it directly in your home, please send an electronic message, including your name and complete postal data. 

                     INDEX

                     Introduction  ...................................................................................3

                     Chapter I  

                     Cabañuelas and Meteorognomy  

                     Introduction.  Meteorognomy:  a forgotten science.  What cabañuelas are?  Origin of the term.  The key-days, the keys of the year.  Cycle of roundtrip.  Origin and foundation of the technique.  The “témporas” of Cantabria and the mountains basquenavarres.  Cabañuelas in Canary Islands.  Validity of cabañuelas seen by the modern Physics.  Fractals and similarity of cycles.  Atmospheric fractals.  Notes.  ..............................................................................................................9

                     Chapter II  

                     Watching signs and phenomena  

                     Introduction.  Mists.  Fog.  Dew.  The observation of dew and mists in period of cabañuelas.  Type of dew in the drought preludes.  Proverbs of dew and fogs. Proverbs about fog. Proverbs about drizzles (cabañuelas).  Phenomena of convection. Stormy activity.  Clouds grazing   Environmental humidity.  The calendar of the onion and the salt.  The test of wool put to the night dampness (bereber tradition).  Observing stones of the ground.  Atmospheric activity:  types of clouds.  Notes     ……..................................................................................................45

                     Chapter III  

                     The prevailing wind regime in critical periods.  The precursory winds  

                     Introduction:  the precursory winds.  a)  Winds of the North.  b) Winds of the South c) Winds of the East.  d) Winds of the West.  e)  Winds of thermal origin.  The wind regime and the oral tradition.  Notes      ……………............59

                     Chapter IV  

                     Moon, Venus and the Pleiades in the ancient world and the rural cultures  

                     The critical days of the Sun-Moon cycle.  The most important moons of the year in Meteorognomy.  Religious and meteorognomical beliefs and ancient observations on the Moon and Venus. The Pleiades.  Crosses in the sky.  Notes     …………...........................................................................................65

                     Chapter V

                     The empirical prognosis of the weather in the oral tradition  

                     Introduction.  Short term rain prediction or worsening of the time.  1)  Atmosphere.  2) Animal behavior.  3)  Electrical phenomena of storms.  4) Observations in the flora.  5)  Other observations.  6)  Types of clouds and place of appearance.  7) Presence of alto-cumuli.  8)  Other clouds.  Rain prediction in the long term.  Fotometeors of the Sun and the Moon:  halos, parhelios, walls...  The observation of  risings and  settings of the Sun.  The colours of the Moon in weather forecast.  The observation of stars in Meteorognomy.  Wind prognoses.  Signals of fine weather.  Hailstorm prediction.  Prognoses of cold in the short term.  Prognoses for the winter.  Prognoses for the spring.  Prognoses for the summer. Prognoses for the autumn.  Beginnings and end of month.  Rainbow. Phenomena with local names.  Bad perspective for the countryside.  The wind regime.  a)  Winds of the East.  b) Winds of the South c) Winds of the North.  d) Winds of the West.  e)  Winds of sea, land breezes.   e)  Duration of winds.  Notes.  ................................................79

                    Chapter VI                   

                     Meteorognomical and anthropological final hotchpoch

                     Historical perspective.  The "knocked down" Moon.  Ancient concept of temperature.  The importance of fog in Meteorognomy. Bells and lawyers against the hail of storms.  A singular belief: the ray stone   Rogations and rites of immersion. Notes            .....................................................................................111

                     Bibliography       ……........................................................................................................127

                     Index             .........................................................................................................131

Price of the work is: 

24 euros

It is sent at home by mail against reimbursement, free of expenses of shipment.  For shipments to countries different from Spain, to consult by e-mail

In order to acquire it directly in your home, please send an electronic message, including your name and complete postal data. 

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