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OT: Weather Folklore

HickoryHusker

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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.
 
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