A Sun Shiny Shower, Won T Last Half an Hour

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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