Weather Sayings

General

  • Rain before seven, fine by eleven
  • A sun shiny shower, won’t last half an hour
  • Clear moon, frost soon
  • When bees stay close to the hive, rain is close by
  • Moss dry, sunny sky; moss wet, rain you’ll get
  • When smoke descends, good weather ends
  • A cow’s tail to the west is weather coming at its best;

A cow’s tail to the east is weather coming at its least

  • Flies will swarm before a storm
  • Fast runs the ant as the mercury rises
  • If crows fly low, wind’s going to blow;

If crows fly high, wind’s going to die

  • No weather is ill if the wind is still
  • If the moon rises with a halo round

Soon we’ll tread on deluged ground

  • When sea birds fly to land

There truly is a storm at hand

  • Whether the weather be hot,

Or whether the weather be not;

We’ll weather the weather, whatever the weather,

Whether we like it or not!

  • Pale moon doth rain,

Red moon doth blow;

White moon doth neither rain nor snow.

  • When the stars begin to huddle,

The earth will soon become a puddle

  • A summer fog for fair, a winter fog for rain
  • When your joints all start to ache,

Rainy weather is at stake

Spring

  • If February brings no rain,

‘Tis neither good for grass nor grain

  • March comes in like a lion, goes out like a lamb
  • If Candlemas Day (February 2nd) be fair and bright,

Winter will have another flight;

But if Candlemas Day be clouds and rain,

Winter is gone – it will not come again

  • April showers bring May flowers
  • If it thunders on All Fools’ Day,

It brings good crops of corn and hay

Summer

  • Change not a clout ‘til May be out
  • A dripping June keeps all things in tune
  • A dry May and a dripping June,

Make the farmer whistle a happy tune

  • Mist in June will bring all things into tune
  • St Swithin’s Day (July 15th), if it do rain,

For forty days it will remain.

St. Swithin’s Day an’ it be fair,

For forty days ‘twill rain nae mair

Autumn

  • If the 24th August be fair and clear,

Then hope for a prosperous Autumn that year

  • In October dung your field

And your land its wealth will yield

  • A tough apple skin means a hard winter

Winter

  • Snow like cotton, soon forgotten

Snow like meal, it’ll snow a great deal

  • A wet January, a wet spring
  • A year of snow, a year of plenty

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