The colt's tail is a cloud with a bushy appearance like a ragged fringe, and portends rain.
I remarked that it was curious how thunderstorms sometimes returned on the same day of the week and at the same hour for a month running.
Hilary said they had been known to return every day at the same hour.
The most regular operation on a farm is the milking: one summer his fogger declared it came on to thunder day after day in the afternoon just as he took his yoke off his shoulders.

Such heavy and continuous downpour not only laid the crops, but might spoil them altogether; for laid barley had been known to sprout there and then, and was of course totally spoiled.

It was a mistake to associate thunder solely with hot weather; the old folk used to say that it was never too cold to thunder and never too warm to snow.
A sweet yet faintly pungent odour came on the light breeze over the next field--a scent like clover, but with a slight reminiscence of the bean-flower.

It arose from the yellow flower of the hop-trefoil: honey sometimes has a flavour which resembles it.

The hop-trefoil is a favourite crop for sheep, but Hilary said it was too soft for horses.
The poppies were not yet out in the wheat.