Did you know..........

[Mags]

A Storm is Coming when...

• Flowers close up before a storm.
• When the leaves of trees turn over, windy conditions and possible severe weather won't be far behind.
• Before a storm, cows will lie down or refuse to go out to pasture. But, when cows are lying down in a field it'll remain fine, once they stand up rain is on its way.
• The daisy shuts its eye before rain.
• Cockerels and male mistlethrushes sing when a thunderstorm approaches.
• Flowers smell best just before a rain.
• Killing a spider will make it rain the next day.
• Swallows fly high when winds are light. So when they start flying low, the storm's a-coming!
• When you see that the ants are excited and coming out at unusual hours to do their work, it means that it is going to rain.
• Rain on St Swithins day (15 July) means rain for 40 days.
• Rain before seven, fine for eleven.
• Snow is due when the cat washes behind both ears.

[Mags]

It Will Be a Bad Winter:

• If squirrels accumulate huge stores of nuts and have thick bushy tails.
• If there are lots of berries on trees.
• If the black stripe is wider than the brown stripes on the back of a Woolly Bear caterpillar, the winter will be long and harsh.
• If ant hills are high in July, winter will be snowy.
• According to farmers in Ohio, the higher a hornet's nest is from the ground, then the more snowfall is to be expected in the coming winter.
• If the first week in August is unusually warm, the coming winter will be snowy and long.
• For every fog in August, there will be a snowfall in winter.
• A warm October means a cold February.
• A warm November is the sign of a bad winter.
• If the first snow falls on unfrozen ground, expect a mild winter.
• The nearer the New Moon to Christmas Day, the harder the winter.
• The first frost in autumn will be exactly six months after the first thunderstorm of the spring.
• Worms plug the entrances to their holes when it gets cold.

[Elaine]

Interesting stuff Mags. Are they all true though? I dont beleive the St Swithens one but I do trust natures warnings.

[dandysmom]

Good post! That was very interesting; I'd heard some of them but a lot were new!
Stop killing spiders....!!!!

[Mags]

I've heard of quite a few of them but there are some there that I didn't know....

[Fran]

Superstitions or not..... fun reading, thank you for posting

[Mags]

Originally Posted by Fran

Superstitions or not..... fun reading, thank you for posting

Can you tell I was a bit bored Fran?

[Fran]

Originally Posted by Mags

Can you tell I was a bit bored Fran?

[Tom]

Ohhhh wonder if they are all true... Gosh lots of spiders must have been killed when we had the floods then!!!