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Monthly Weather Predictions:

February

"If Candlemas Day be fair and bright,
Winter will have another flight,
If Candlemas Day be cloud and rain,
Then winter will not come again." (Candlemas Day - 2nd February)

March

"A wet March makes a sad harvest."
"March dry, good rye."
"If March comes in like a lion, it will go out like a lamb."
As it rains in March,
So it rains in June.

April

"April wet, good wheat."
"A cold April brings us bread and wine."
"April showers, bring forth May flowers"
If April blows its horn,
It'll bring forth hay and corn.

May

"Water in May brings bread through all the year."
"Cast ne'er a clout till May be out." (This could refer to hawthorn blossom which is also known as May)

June

" A leak in June
brings harvest soon."
June damp and warm,
does the farmer no harm.

July

"St. Swithin's Day, if thou dost rain,
For forty days it will remain;
St. Swithin's Day, if thou be fair,
For forty days 'twill rain nae mair." (St. Swithin's Day - 14th July)

August

"If St. Bartholomew's be clear,
A prosperous autumn comes that year." (St. Bartholomew's - 24th August)
If the first week be warm,
then winter will be white and long.

September

If Michaelmas brings many acorns,
Christmas will cover the fields with snow.< (Michaelmas Day 29th September)
October
"If ducks do slide at Hallowtide,
At Christmas they will swim;
If ducks do swim at Hallowtide,
At Christmas they will slide."
Rain in October
Gives wind in December.
If the October moon comes without frost,
Expect no frost until the moon of November.

November

"A cold November, a warm Christmas."
Wind in the North-west on St. Martin's Day (11th)
There's a severe winter on the way.
Wind in the South-west on St. Martin's Day
There it will remain till February, and a mild winter will be had.
A warm November is a sign of a bad winter to come.

December

"If sun shines through the apple trees upon a Christmas Day,
When autumn comes they will a load of fruit display."
"If New Year's Eve night-wind blows south,
It betokeneth warmth and growth;
If west, much milk, and fish in the sea;
If north, cold and storms there will be;
If east, the trees will bear much fruit;
If north-east, flee it, man and brute!"

Another Feb one -
If Candlemas be bright and clear
there'll be twa winters in the year.

Means the same as yours interestingly!

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Earth laughs in flowers. Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Updated September 29th - Bean drying.

I predict in the next month we shall have some.............................................. ...........weather!!

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I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food.
W. C. Fields

I predict that today we will have a months weather.

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A simple dude trying to grow veg.

http://haywayne.blogspot.com/ - Tuscany update - 27th September

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With a memory like a sieve, the trick now is to remember what the weather was like here on Candlemas Day!!

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“The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.”

Here it was dry and sunny with an overnight temperature of -6.

What does that tell me???????

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Gardening requires a lot of water - most of it in the form of perspiration. Lou Erickson, critic and poet