JANUARY WEATHER FOLKLORE
-Fog in January brings a wet spring.
-A favorable January brings us a good year.
-If grass grows in January, it will grow badly the whole year.
-A summerish January, a winterish spring.
FEBRUARY WEATHER FOLKLORE
-Married in February’s sleety weather, Life you’ll tread in tune together.
-If February give much snow, A fine summer it doth foreshow.
-Fogs in February mean frosts in May.
-“If Candlemas Day [February 2] be mild and gay,
Go saddle your horses, and buy them hay
But if Candlemas Day be stormy and black,
It carries the winter away on its back.”
MARCH WEATHER FOLKLORE
-A wet spring, a dry harvest.
-On St. Patrick’s Day, the warm side of a stone turns up, and the broad-back goose begins to lay.
-March comes in with adders’ heads and goes out with peacocks’ tails.
-Thunder in spring, Cold will bring.
-So many mists in March you see, So many frosts in May will be.
-In beginning or in end, March its gifts will send.
APRIL WEATHER FOLKLORE
– A cold April, the bar will fill.
MAY WEATHER FOLKLORE
-A dry May and a leaking June, Make the farmer whistle a merry tune.
-A snowstorm in May, Is worth a wagonload of hay.
JUNE WEATHER FOLKLORE
-If June be sunny, harvest comes early.
-June damp and warm does the farmer no harm.
JULY WEATHER FOLKLORE
-Ne’er trust a July sky.
-If ant hills are high in July, the coming winter will be hard.
-As July, so next January.
-No tempest, good July, Lest the corn look ruely.
-Whatever July and August do not boil, September can not fry.
AUGUST WEATHER FOLKLORE
???-As August, so February.
-Observe on what day in August the first heavy fog occurs, and expect a hard frost on the same day in October.
-If the first week of August is unusually warm, The winter will be white and long.
-So many August fogs, so many winter mists.
-When it rains in August, It raises honey and wine.
SEPTEMBER WEATHER FOLKLORE
Heavy September rains bring drought.
September dries up ditches or breaks down bridges.
September blow soft, till the fruit’s in the loft.
Married in September’s golden glow, smooth and serene your life will go.
If the storms of September clear off warm, the storms of the following winter will be warm.
Fair on September 1st, fair for the month.
OCTOBER WEATHER FOLKLORE
-When deer are in a gray coat in October, expect a hard winter.
-Much rain in October, much wind in December.
-A warm October means a cold February.
-In October dung your field, and your land its wealth shall yield.
NOVEMBER WEATHER FOLKLORE
-If there’s ice in November that will bear a duck, There’ll be nothing after but sludge and muck.
-November take flail; let ships no more sail.
-If trees show buds in November, the winter will last until May.
-There is no better month in the year to cut wood than November.
-Ice in November brings mud in December.
-A heavy November snow will last until April.
DECEMBER WEATHER FOLKLORE
-Expect a snowstorm if sheep feed facing downhill.
-December changeable and mild, the whole winter will remain a child.
-Thunder in December presages fine weather.
-Frost on the shortest day is said to indicate a severe winter.
-December cold, with snow, brings rye everywhere.
-If ice hangs on the willow on Christmas Day, clover may be cut at Easter.
