We all know the expression “April showers bring May flowers,” but as the Farmer’s Almanac reports, there are a cornucopia of weather lore sayings associated with rain and spring that may be new to you!
Have you heard any of these?
Weather Lore Sayings About Rain
- Rain before 7 – clear before 11.
Rain after 7 – rain all day. - If it rains on the first Sunday of the month, every Sunday except one usually will be wet.
- When the ants close up their hills, we will have rain in a day or two;
if the ant hills are open, it will continue to be fair. - When leaves turn over, it’s a sign of rain.
- Variable wind indicates a coming storm.
- When robins call loudly and steadily, it will rain soon.
- Three foggy mornings and then a rain.
- No dew in the morning indicates rain.
- Low banks of haze in the south indicate rain.
- Step on a spider and it will surely bring rain.
- The louder the frog, the more rain to come.
March Weather Lore Sayings
- Is’t on St. Joseph’s day (19th) clear,
So follows a fertile year;
Is’t on St. Mary’s (25th) bright and clear,
Fertile is said to be the year.
April Sayings
- If it thunders on All Fool’s Day, it brings good crops of corn and hay.
- A cold May and a windy April, a full barn.
- March’ll search ye, April try ye; May’ll tell, whether live or die ye.
- If the oak is out before the ash then we are in for a splash;
But if the ash is out before the oak we are in for a soak. - April cold and wet fills barn and barrel.
- When April blows its horn
Then it stands good with hay, rye, and corn. - A cold and moist April fills the cellar and fattens the cow
May Sayings
- A dry May and a leaking June
Make the farmer whistle a merry tune. - Look at your corn in May,
And you’ll come sorrowing away;
Look at it again in June,
And you’ll come singing another tune. - A dewy morning brings a good haying day.
- A heavy dew at night promises a good day to follow.
- Hoar-frost on the 1st of May indicates a good harvest.
June Sayings
- If June is sunny, the harvest will come early.
- In June, when there is no dew, it indicates rain.
- A cold and wet June spoils the rest of the year.
- June, damp and warm, does a farmer no harm.
- A good rain in June sets all in tune.
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