William Augustus (translator)

William Augustus (or Wil Aust) of Cil-y-cwm (near Llandovery), Carmarthenshire, was an 18th-century weather forecaster and translator. He was locally renowned for his ability to forecast (within the hour, it is said) the onset of rain, gales, frost, or thunderstorms. He is known to have been living when John Ross of Carmarthen printed The Husbandman's Perpetual Prognostication (1794), a curious collection of weather lore written partly in English and partly in Welsh. The source of the Welsh portion (which is largely a translation of the well-known English text) is acknowledged by Augustus.