There are quite a lot of signs by which people determine the weather. Conventionally, they can be divided by days, by weeks, by months and, of course, by the season. For example, some villagers rely on the following sign: "Weather New Year - for a good harvest." There are similar signs among students: "On Tatiana (January 25 - Tatiana's day) it is warm - by early summer, and snow on Tatiana's day - by a damp summer."
From takes to the weather
To the rain. The day before precipitation, in the form of rain, you can see how the spruce lowers their branches, tightly pressing the scales of the cones to each other. If the flowers, as well as acacia and jasmine, begin to smell strong, and midges hover over them in large numbers, then it will soon start to rain. Precipitation in the form of rain foreshadows both loudly croaking crows and loudly screaming jackdaws.
For clear weather. If all the stars that make up the Milky Way are perfectly visible in the night sky, then good weather will come in two weeks and will be established in the region for a long time. If the bees sit languidly on the walls of their hive, then you can expect a warm and clear summer. If the fireflies are bright at night, then the day ahead will be clear.
By frost. Before the frost, all the trees crackle. Large cones often fall from pines before lingering cold weather. If a cat in the house is curled up into a ball, hiding its nose under its paw, severe cold is coming! Arms and legs ache - to frosty winters. In winter, at lunchtime, the clouds are low - to a strong blizzard. A blizzard is foreshadowed by loudly singing bullfinches.
Towards warming. Warming foreshadows a loud and noisy forest. If a lot of snow falls, it is large and resembles flakes, then warm weather is not far off. Magpies jumping from branch to branch in the morning predict a thaw. One of the strangest folk signs about warm weather: if a red moon appears in the sky, the coming days will become warm.
National omens about the weather - truth or fiction?
If you believe the folk signs dedicated to the weather, then by one single day or some phenomenon you can judge what kind of weather will be in the near future. For example, according to one of the old weather signs, if the weather is clear on the Old New Year (January 13), then the next spring should be friendly, summer not very dry, and autumn not too rainy.
This also includes the most famous weather feature of our time: the prediction of a Pennsylvania marmot named Phil. Every spring on February 2 (Groundhog Day), some Americans travel to the small town of Punxsutawney, located in the US state of Pennsylvania, to hear the predictions of the most popular "weather forecaster" of our time, Phil the Groundhog. According to this sign, if a marmot sees its own shadow upon leaving its "house" and returns back to its burrow, then winter will last for a very long time. If the rodent does not see the shadow and stays on the street, then spring will come early!
To believe in such signs or not is a purely personal matter. However, it is worth listening to the opinion of professional weather forecasters who do not welcome such popular prejudices: according to them, determining the weather for a day or even for a whole season just by singing birds or the behavior of trees is a gossip-level prejudice. Such signs are far from the truth, and some of them come true only due to the usual coincidence. Forecasters say that in most cases it is simply stupid to determine the weather according to folk signs!
