Weather Lore

Well this morning brought the first of the snow, I awoke to a smattering of the white stuff. (this was taken from my back door)

So thought it an opportune time to do a bit on weather lore.

Weather lore is almost as old as the human race, and as extensive. Where rules and sayings apply to weather in the longer term, beyond the next few days, then experience and logic suggest that they are at best a prediction. Weather lore seems to persist among many (as many old sayings do). The following present some of the best known.

Long foretold, long last; short notice, soon past

Red sky in the morning, shepherd's warning; red sky at night, shepherd's delight

Rain before seven, fine before eleven

Ice in November to bear a duck, the rest of the winter'll be slush and muck

Evening red and morning grey, two sure signs of one fine day

Turkeys perched on trees and refusing to descend indicate snow

A northern air, brings weather fair. The north wind doth blow, and we shall have snow

Always a calm before a storm