I have heard that using seaweed as a barometer is very effective
and that people used to bring home a piece of seaweed and hang it on their
porches. If fine weather is predicted, the seaweed will be dry and
crumbly. If wet weather is coming, then it will expand and feel damp
since it will absorb moisture from the air.
If trees show the lighter underside of
their leaves, wet weather is a sure thing. (This is caused by the increasing
moisture in the air which softens the leave stalks, causing them to turn over.)
If your cat gets extremely frisky, then expect high winds.
Dogs tend to get agitated before the
arrival of a thunderstorm. Of course, their keen ears hear it long before
our pitiful human hearing detects the booming thunder.
If you see all of the cows in a field
lying down and chewing their cud, rain is on the way.
A cat washing behind its ears is a sure
sign of rain to come.
When the day is going to be hot and dry,
spiders spin longer and larger webs. If rain is coming, the webs are
short and small or the spiders disappear altogether.
If a cock goes crowing to bed, he will
surely wake with a watery head. (If a rooster crows at night, there will
be rain by the next morning.)
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My cats have been washing behind their ears lately, and I saw the cows down the road lying down. Sure enough, we had rain. I also go by the size of the ant-hills—a high hill means heavy rain.
ReplyDeleteSince you mentioned seaweed, that got me to thinking. We're so close to the open sea and have paid enough visits to tell that we haven't seen a single strand of seaweed. I suppose not every piece of coastline gets seaweed.
ReplyDeleteI guess it just depends on your location. Either that or there are many seaweed-eating sea monsters close to you.
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