Plumglass Cloud Readers — Raven Weather Observers Reference Sheet

The story of Plumglass Cloud Readers

A fictional story inspired by the artwork.

At Plumglass Station the ravens file their weather notes by sound. A window that rattles before dawn belongs in the north drawer. Rain that ticks against the stovepipe belongs in the east. A gust that passes without making either sound earns a fresh page, because it probably came through a gap nobody has found yet.

One morning the youngest observer hears a whistle from a sealed window. Her wind gauge turns slowly, although the chart on the wall promises calm weather. She walks around the station with the instrument held at shoulder height and finds a steady draft coming up between two floorboards.

The senior reader takes a brass dial down to the road. The needle barely moves there. Up on the ridge it swings as soon as a bank of cloud rolls past. Together the two ravens work out that air from the ravine is climbing through an old vent beneath the station floor.

The reference sheet shows how plum coats and brass fittings read against dark feathers. Some observers hold their instruments out in open air, while others draw charts close to their chests. In the archive the apprentice opens a new drawer, slips in her sketch of the vent, and labels it with a small drawing of a whistling floorboard.

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