OT: Weather Folklore

[HickoryHusker]

I'm a sucker for folklore, and while all of these don't help predict the winter, many of the do. Nay I have missed?

Weather Rhymes

• If crows fly low, winds going to blow.
• If crows fly high, winds going to die.
• If it rains before seven, it will clear before eleven
• Ring around the moon, rain real soon.
• Red sky at night, sailor’s delight.
• Red sky at morn, sailor take warn.
• If dew is on the grass, the rain will pass.
• If bugs start to bite, rain it might.
• Leaves over they roll, coming storm foretold.
• Clouds flying high, fair weather nigh.
• Clods fly low, wind is going to blow.
• Pinecones opened-up, empty is water’s cup.
• Cows on their tummy, weather’s crummy.
• Squirrel nests high, snow piles high.
• Nuts falling harder, better stock up the larder.
• Light on the berries, less snow to carry.
• When squirrels start early to hoard, winter will pierce us like a sword.
• Beavers with sticks in its mouth, better head south.
• If the rooster molts before the hen, we’ll have winter thick and thin.
• If the hen molts before the cock, we’ll have winter hard as a rock.
• Wild turkeys perched high in a tree, snow’s coming & so is a freeze.
• Bees building inside hives, winter sure to arrive.
• Outside hives for the bee, a pleasant winter we’ll see.
• Mushrooms galore, much snow in store.
• No mushrooms at all, no snow will fall.
• Thunder in winter nature, snow comes 7 days later.

Other Weather Clues

• Count cricket chirps for 14 seconds + 40 = Temperature
• Wooly worms – Black = harsh winter, brown = mild
• Thicker onion skins = rough winter ahead
• Persimmon seeds, spoon = lots of snow, knife = cold winter
• Height of the hornets’ nest = total feet of winter’s snowfall
• The number of days from Christmas when the snowflakes first fall will tell you how many times it will snow this winter.

 

[Steve03]

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