The concept of a Dulux-style wind-colour catalogue was well established here and elsewhere
All those red wind warnings had me imagining air conditions of that actual colour spreading across Ireland. Photograph: Getty Images
“Have you ever heard the wolf cry to the blue corn moon?/Or asked the grinning bobcat why he grinned?/Can you sing with all the voices of the mountain?/Can you paint with all the colors of the wind?”Poison Pen – Frank McNally on the late-blooming Violet Needham, children’s novelist extraordinaireArsenic and Old Books – Frank McNally on a reader’s literary cry for help
That was at least partly in keeping with the Bible’s Book of Zechariah, in which the prophet has a vision of heavenly winds taking the form of chariots, led by black, white, red, and “grisled” horses: “A record of this belief will be found in the literature of all ancient peoples,” declares the immortal part of Mathers, turning philosophical in eternity and detailing his own wind spectrum :
But then, undermining Met Éireann’s credibility too, Old Mathers waxes lyrical about one shade of wind in particular: “What could be more exquisite than a countryside swept lightly by cool rain reddened by the south-west breeze?”
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