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Winter 2020-21 Recap: How Accurate Was Our Forecast?
Every year we take a look back at our previous winter forecast. How accurate was the “Winter of the Great Divide”? Find out!
Canadian Winter 2020-21 Recap: How’d We Do?
We take look back at the winter of 2020-2021. How did our Canadian forecast do?
The Importance of Folklore In The Modern World
With all the technology we have access to at our fingertips, do we really still need folklore in our everyday lives?
7 Types of Rainbows That Remind You Nature is Awesome
Rainbows are even more unique and wonderful than you imagined—these 7 prove you need to be pretty lucky to spot one. See the list.
What The Heck Is A Bugnado?
A vortex of whirling bugs? A bugnado seems like something straight out of a sci-fi movie! See how and why they form and what to do if you see one coming your way!
Weather Lore Quotes
- Red sky at night- sailor’s delight, Red sky in morning- sailor’s warning.
- Rain before 7- clear before 11. Rain after 7- rain all day.
- Step on a spider and it will surely bring rain.
- Dog days bring the greatest heat and the most thunderstorms of the year.
- Crickets and tree toads singing loudly in the evening indicate it will be fair and hot.
- When robins call loudly and steadily, it will rain soon.
- If it rains on the first Sunday of the month, every Sunday except one usually will be wet.
- Six weeks after you hear crickets chirp in the summer, look for frost.
- When the ants close up their hills, we will have rain in a day or two; if the ant hills are open, it will continue to be fair.
- Winter fog will freeze a dog; summer fog will roast a hog.
- Three foggy mornings and then a rain.
- A dewy morning brings a good haying day.
- A heavy dew at night promises a good day to follow.
- Still, moist and camp hot air means rain on the way.
- No dew in the morning indicates rain.
- Low banks of haze in the south indicate rain.
- When leaves turn over, it’s a sign of rain.
- Variable wind indicates a coming storm.
You know it’s going to rain when…
- Bees stay close to their hives
- Swallows fly close to the ground
- Flies and gnats bite in vain
- Birds stay perched on telephone wires
- Your corn or badly healed broken bone talks to you
- Sound travels far and wide
- If ants build lots of walls, rain will surly fall
- A cow scratches its ear
- Leaves show their backs
- Sheep collect and huddle
- Large halo ‘round the moon
