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I AM inclined to agree with Dr. Burder as to the invisibility of Auroras by daylight, yet I can confidently assure him that I have many times seen the arch “almost due east,” that is when the extremities point N.N.W. and S.S.E. When such a phenomenon occurred in Newfoundland, some of the old weather-wise settlers would tell me to expect falling weather (snow or rain) on the following day, as the Northern Lights were in the south. But I am sorry to say that I did not note how often the Aurora appeared as above, but I did note that snow fell on seventy-eight consecutive days in the autumn of 1867 and commencement of the winter of 1868.
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REEKS, H. Aurora Arcs in the East. Nature 3, 167 (1870). https://doi.org/10.1038/003167e0
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