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Welcome to the Weather Folklore page. Here, you will find over 200 weather folklore sayings to help you forecast with a funny touch.

• If the goose honks high, fair weather;
• If the goose honks low, foul weather.
• The low flight of rooks indicates rain.
• Birds flying low, Expect rain and a blow
• If the lark flies high, Expect fair weather.
• When swallows fleet soar high and sport in the air, He told us that the welkin would be clear.
• Wild geese fly high in pleasant weather And fly low in bad weather.
• Everything is lovely when the goose honks high.
• If the rooster crows on going to bed, you may rise with a watery head.
• If the raven crows, expect rain.
• When geese cackle, it will rain.
• When ducks quack loudly, it's a sign of rain.
• The hooting of the owl brings rain.
• If the sparrow makes a lot of noise, rain will follow.
• When parrots whistle, expect rain.
• Fish bite best before a rain.
• When fish break water and bite eagerly, expect rain.
• When porpoises sport and play, there will be a storm.
• Trout jump high When a rain is nigh.
• The crab his briny home forsakes, And strives on land to a roam.
• Bubbles over calm beds of water means rain is coming.
• Marshes give off an eerie light before a rain.
• Wells give murky water before a storm.
• Look for foam on the river before a rain.
• When bubbles are rising on the surface of coffee and they hold together, good weather is coming; If the bubbles break up, weather you don't need is coming.
• Underground miners can smell rain coming.
• When ditches and ponds Offend the nose, Look for rain And stormy blows.
• When boiling water more rapidly vanishes, expect rain.
• If pavements appear rusty, rain will follow.
• When the glass falls low, Prepare for a blow; When the glass is high, Let your kites fly.
• In the winter, a heavy snow is predicted if the barometer falls and the temperature rises.
• When the wind backs, and the weather glass falls, Then be on your guard against rain and squalls.
• If cirrus clouds form in weather with a falling barometer, it is almost sure to rain.
• A summer thunderstorm that does not depress the barometer will be very local and of little consequence.
• Springs start to flow just before a rain.
• Sap from the maple tree flows faster before a rain shower.
• Water rising in springs and wells indicates rain.
• Many springs that have gone dry will have a good flow of water before rain.
• Wells gurgle and yield muddy water before a storm.
• Soot falls down before a rain.
• If burning coals stick to the bottom of a pot, it is the sign of a tempest.
• Fires burning paler than usual and murmuring within are significant of storms.
• Burning wood pops more before rain and snow.
• The katydid's song gives the following temperatures:
  • Kay-tee--did it-----------78F
  • Kay-tee--didn't----------74F
  • Kay-tee--did--------------70F
  • Kate-Didn't----------------66F
  • Kate-tee--------------------62F
  • Kate--------------------------58F
• Cockroaches are more active before a storm.
• Locusts sing when the air is hot and dry.
• Ants are very busy, gnats bite; Crickets are lively, spiders leave their nest; And flies gather in houses before a rain.
• Open crocus, warm weather; Closed crocus, cold weather.
• Tulips open their blossoms when the temperature rises, they close again when the temperature falls.
• The daisy shuts it's eye before rain.
• If the marigold should open at six or seven in the morning and not close until four in the afternoon, we may reckon on settled weather.
• When pipes smell stronger, it's going to rain.
• If the perfume of flowers is unusually perceptible, Expect rain.
• Flowers smell best just before a rain.
• When ditches and ponds offend the nose, Look for rain and stormy blows.
• If a dog pulls his feet up high while walking, A change in the weather is coming.
• Cats scratch a post before wind, Wash their faces before a rain, And sit with backs to the fire before snow.
• Cats with their tails up and hair apparently electrified indicate approaching wind.
• When spiders webs in air do fly, The spell will soon be very dry.
• If garden spiders forsake their webs, it indicates rain.
• If spiders are many and spinning their webs The spell will soon be very dry.
• Spiders enlarge and repair their webs before bad weather.
• A reddish sun has water in his eye; before long you won't be dry.
• When the sun sets bright and clear, An easterly wind you need not fear.
• Clouds on the setting sun's brow indicate rain.
• Evening red and morning gray; A good sign for a fair day.
• When the sun sets unhappily with a red veiled face; Then will the morning be angry with wind and storm.
• A red evening and a gray morning sets the pilgrim walking.
• And evening red, and a morning gray, sets the traveler on his way; but an evening gray and a morning red, put on your hat, you'll wet your head.
• If the sun in red should set, the next day surely will be wet; if the sun should set in gray, the next will be a fair day.
• An evening gray, and a morning red, makes the shepherd hang his head. When walls are wet, expect some rain.
• If metal plates and dishes sweat, it is a sign of rain.
• Quarries of stone and slate indicate rain by moist exhalation from the stone.
• When stones sweat, rain you'll get.
• Pale moon rains,
• Red moon blows;
• White moon neither rains or blows.
• The moon her face be red, of water she speaks.
• If the moon rises clear, expect fair weather.
• When the moon rises red and appears large, with clouds, expect rain in twelve hours.
• When the moon is darkest near the horizon, expect rain.
• If salt is sticky, and gains in weight; it will rain before too late.
• When cheese salt is soft, expect rain.
• Tobacco gets moist before a rain.
• Oily floors quite slippery get before the rain makes everything wet.
• If there is dew on the grass in the morning, fair weather.
• When dew is on the grass, rain will never come to pass.
• Mist rising from the pond, fair weather tomorrow.
• Clear moon, frost soon.
• When mountain moss is soft and limpid, expect rain.
• When corn fodder stands all dry and crisp, go on your outing, there's no great risk.
• Doors and drawers stick before a rain.
• When ropes are tight it's going to rain; When weather's fair, they're slack again.
• Knots get tighter before a rain.
• Ropes shorten before a rain.
• When locks turn damp in the scalp house, it will surely rain.
• Guitar strings shorten before a rain.
• Dandelion blossoms close before a rain.
• When the milkweed closes its pod, expect rain.
• The pitcher plant opens wider before a rain.
• Chickweeds close their leaves before a rain.
• Closed is the pink eyed pimpernel before rain.
• When corn fodder is crisp, fair weather; When corn fodder is limp, rain is coming.
• If smoke falls to the ground, it is likely to rain.
• Campfires are more smoky before a rain.
• The factory smoke stack is more of a nuisance before a rain.
• If toads appear in large numbers, expect rain.
• If frogs make a noise at the time of cold rain, warm dry weather will follow.
• If many earthworms appear, rain will follow.
• If you see toadstools in the morning, expect rain by evening.
• When frogs jump across the road, they are looking for rain.
• Dead branches falling calm weather indicates rain.
• If cumulus clouds are smaller at sunset than at noon, expect fair weather.
• When cumulus clouds become heaped in leeward during a strong wind at sunset, thunder may be expected during the night.
• If wooly fleeces spread the heavenly way, be sure no rain disturbs the summer day.
• When clouds sink below the hills, foul weather; When clouds rise above the hills, fair weather.
• After back clouds, fair weather.
• If cloudy and it soon decreases, certain fair weather.
• A round-topped cloud and flattened base, carries rainfall in its face.
• When mountains and cliffs in the clouds appear, some sudden and violent showers appear.
• Long foretold, long last Short notice, soon passed.
• Enough blue sky in the Northwest to make a pair of Dutchman's breeches is a sign of approaching fair weather.
• When clouds are upon the hills, they'll come down by the mills.
• When lookout mountain has its cap on, it will rain in six hours.
• Clouds upon the hills, if rising, do not bring rain, if falling, rain follows.
• If clouds rise in heaps of white, soon will the country of the corn priests be pierced with arrows of rain.
• Cumulus clouds in a clear blue sky, it will likely rain.
• Sunshiny shower last half an hour.
• Clouds small and round like a dapply-gray, with north wind, fair for a day.
• The higher the clouds, the fairer the weather.
• When smoke rises but not too high, clouds won't grow and you'll keep dry.
• Mackerel skies and mares' tails Make tall ships carry low sails.

   

  
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