Weather Eye

Weather Eye is a selection from the famous column in The Irish Times, which over the years has described and evoked all aspects of that most perennial of subjects for exchange and conversation – the lingua franca of country – and townspersons everywhere. Subjects encompassed include weather in history, weather in literature, weather in folklore, weather in mythology and weather in religion: auguries and forecasting; the science of meteorology; winds, rain, atmospheric pressure, cloud formations;