weather lore

This experience accumulated over the generations to produce weather lore.

As ever with weather lore, there could be a grain of truth - but don't bet your holidays on it.

Weather lore, therefore, refers to this mid-latitude region of daily variability.

The use of sky cover in weather prediction has led to various weather lore over the centuries.

Weather lore has it that the wider the dark band in the center of the caterpillar, the milder the winter.

I interpreted this with my vague weather lore to mean a strong wind out in the Atlantic, probably westerly.

In weather lore, a year with plentiful rowan fruit would have a good grain harvest but be followed by a severe winter.

Weather lore is the body of informal folklore related to the prediction of the weather.

Bauernregel (Farmers' rule): Told in the traditional rhyme scheme of weather lore.

The terminology and practice of Somali weather lore, astronomy, and astrology (1968)

This is one of the most well-known bits of traditional farmers' weather lore remaining in today's Germany, but quite inaccurate in practice.

Indian weather lore such as a Thunder Moon and a Moon dog was often used in his broadcasts.

They will cover ice-fishing techniques, equipment, clothing, weather lore, survival skills, the ecological balance of fish and other lake creatures, and fishing-license regulations.

In weather lore, Groundhog Day, in the United States, is set to decide what the weather will be like for the rest of the winter.

I looked at the sun again and recalled the remnants of my weather lore; it seemed to me that everything spoke of calm weather and easterly winds.

Atmospheric phenomena such as halos were used as part of weather lore as an empirical means of weather forecasting before meteorology was developed.

One of the best chroniclers of weather lore is Eric Sloane whose book "Folklore of American Weather" has become a classic.

It is distinguished by the hawthorn hedges which bloom with white flowers and are said to signify an unseasonal cold spell, termed a "Blackthorn Winter" in local weather lore.

The name of Swithun is best known today for a British weather lore proverb, which says that if it rains on Saint Swithun's day, 15 July, it will rain for 40 days.

Atmospheric phenomena such as halos have been used as part of weather lore as an empirical means of weather forecasting, with their presence indicating an approach of a warm front and its associated rain.

So all this suggests that an abundance of berries in the hedgerow is more reliable as an indicator of past weather, rather than a prediction of a hard winter to come as weather lore would have it.

Local weather lore in the area suggests that when the fridges frost over and the café tables' corners curl upwards at the Burketown Pub, there is enough moisture in the air for the clouds to form.

One piece of South Cornish - and Plymouth - weather lore runs, 'When you can see Eddystone clearly, rain is on its way; when you cannot see it clearly, rain is already here'.

The poem describes the elevation of St. Swithun and is also thought to be the original source of the well-known British weather lore that if it rains on St. Swithun's Day, 15 July, it will rain for the next 40 days.

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