Weather sayings and old wives tales

When the night has a fever, it cries in the morning.
if the temp increase between 10pm and midnight i beleive it will rain in the morning.

I wonder! if a turn to the worse is preceded by a atmospheric pressure drop which lowers the pressure above the surface of the canal/s allows the escape of gas from the bottom layer of the canal, hence the the fetid smell!!

I agree.
Sometimes with all this high-tec stuff, things can get messed up.
No one uses wives tales anymore.
All of mine are already posted, like the cricket one and stuff.

The winter are now almost at his end and in some areas around my village there has been up to 2.50 meter with
snow…and this autumn it was no rowanberry!

What about the pains in the joints like knees, and thumbs. My mother in law swears by it.

Re the cows, it is not working they lay down when they lay down I guess. Often you see them laying down to re-consume their grass. The do tend to face their back ends into the wind (same as horses and other animals). I have a few cows, so I might set-up a cow cam so you can see for yourself.

Re-swallows.
It is about hunting, flies are subject to updraft of hot air, hence they are higher and it is warmer (I think).

Gees flying north means that it is getting warmer (northern hem) and flying south it means it getting colder.

I believe the Irish have some way of weather prediction using a piece of string on a board. It tends to be very accurate. For example when it is wet it is raining, when it s horizontal it is storming and when it is gone well…Katrina came through.

H

Ummm please don’t go to the trouble for me #-o

LOL

-Bob

hmmm, the neighbor’s cattle have moved, but his and my sheep - they lie down to chew their cud - and that’s not tobacco! I could lower the cam and increase the zoom… I’ll take a pic one day, but by then I would have forgotten… #-o :smiley:

I read somewhere that cows tend to put their tail ends into the wind because predators often approach from downwind so their prey doesn’t catch their scent, and this orientation gives the cows a better chance of spotting something coming. It also makes them big weather vanes.
Hmmm, a backwards facing cow for a weather vane design?

Steve

Just thinking logically here, I think that the animals have sensitive noses and the direct blast of the wind into their various senses - eyes, nostrils, ears - would nullify their functioning and annoy them (sorry ex farner’s son thinking here…) Your explanation also makes sense too.

Graeme

in our small town, my grandmother always predicts a rain coming when the insects most specially cockroaches goes out the drainage or sometimes in the kitchen cabinet… and it seems like these insects have this strong senses about the weather… :slight_smile:

. The wind from the East is neither good for man or beast
A pretty & clear sky of blue, breeds a storm in a day or two
Lightning strikes cedar & ash-seek thee oak for cover to draw no flash

I watch the kids at school. When they start acting bad-the barometer starts to drop. Usually a great predictor of precipitation or weather change. And I have predicted a number of births with this theory.

Here is my post from 2009 on Wxforum
http://www.wxforum.net/index.php?topic=5877.msg57269#msg57269

Rain before 7 fine by 11. (7am/11am)

teal.

If you can’t see Fife [across the Firth of Forth] it’s raining. If you can see Fife, it’s going to rain soon.

I am new to this forum, having found it when searching through the Weather Display site. I found this topic rather of interest, despite it being left some time ago. Anyway, as a young meteorology student, my mentor and chief meteorologist at KXAS-TV in Fort Worth once told us one of his most sacred “ism’s” of the trade: Never go on the air with a forecast without looking outside the window first…

Welcome! That’s a very good one :smiley:

For lakes and oceans
A calm flat surface means a gale is ahead.

Overland
When birds soar high, expect fair weather

That smell on the canals is true of on coming rain or much dampness.
it’s because when the moisture builds smell (and sound) get intensified.

Fields bending down, storms come around.
again the moisture building gives extra flexibility to long grass, and tall plants, thus a chance to bend more.

Similar to canals at 2 miles from the sea, if you can smell it there will be a storm.
We have willow trees down our road, if there is no wind at all and you hear the trees whispering it will rain.True in this area.
Pine cones:) Yes I have 5 mounted on wood underneath my station. Open is sunny and closed is rain. Mine are about 25 years old.

I hadn’t heard the canal one before, but the nearest canal is over 10 miles away and I only tend to walk by it on hot sunny days.

I’ve heard trees whispering before rain and seen pine cones opening/closing although I’m amazed that they still do it after 25 years!