(from various sources)

Weather Superstitions


IT WILL RAIN:
• Within 3 days if the horns of the moon point down.
• If the moon is resting on its back at the start of its fourth quarter, it will be a rainy week.
• If the moon is red when it rises, expect rain the next day.
• If there are changes in the moon's appearance occurring on Sunday mean heavy rains or flooding.
• If leaves show their backs.
• If cows lie down in the pasture.
• If there is a ring around the moon. (Count the number of stars in the ring and it will rain in that many days).
• If the sun sets with clouds.
• If an ant covers the hole to the ant hill.
• If smoke goes to the ground.
• If birds fly low.
• If it starts raining on the day the moon becomes full, it will rain until the moon quarters.


FAIR WEATHER:
• If smoke rises.
• If you hear a screech owl.
• If crickets holler. The temperature will rise.
• If the winter new moon rises far in the South it will be unusually warm.
• If there is a cloudy morning during a waining moon there will be a sunny
• afternoon


WINTER SIGNS:
IT MAY BE A BAD WINTER
• If the winter new moon rises far in the North it will be a cold month
• If squirrels gather nuts early (middle or late Sept).
• If squirrels tails grow bushier.
• If squirrels build nests low in trees.
• If muskrat houses are built big.
• If beaver lodges have more logs, and the North side is more covered with logs than the South side.
• If animals hair is thicker than usual.
• If birds eat up all the berries early
• If hornets build their nests heavier and closer to the ground
• If miller moths hit the screen trying to get in.
• If ants build their hills high.
• If blackberry blooms are especially heavy
• If carrots grow deeper
• If apples mature early
• If trees have a lot of green leaves late into the fall
• If there is a heavy crop of berries,acorns,pinecones.
• If bark on trees is thicker.
• If bark on trees is heavier on the North side.
• If leaves shed before they turn.
• If moss grows heavy on trees.
• If pine cones open early.
• If grass is especially dark green in summer