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I find it very interesting that P Phil would be in the news in New Zealand! yeah.. if Phil sees his shadow does that mean the Kiwis get 6 more weeks of summer?? - joe (maybe just on the north island) friday
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We've probably got another 3 or 4 weeks of good weather left. Last week, relative humidity was at 100 percent. Yes, groundhogs day the movie was very popular but I also read the NY Times regularly.
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Speaking of superstitions: it rained in Charlotte last night, which is not unusual, but the front was accompanied by thunder and lightning, which is somewhat unusual so early in the year. Later in the year, the Piedmont Plateau has a very high incident of lightning strikes. However, to the point: I thought last night when the lightning was being displayed of a saying that my grandmother used to say when it lightninged so early in the year; but I could not think of the entire piece. It went: "Lightning before...." The rest remained in the *cloud* of the *fog.* Anyone help?
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I don't know the one you refer to, but there are lots around like that.
"April: A full moon in April brings frost.
If the full moon rises pale expect rain.
Winter;If you bite into an apple and it has a hard skin, it's
going to be a hard winter.
The weather each of the 12 days after Christmas will indicate the
weather conditions for the 12 months of the following year.
The winder the band of brown on the banded wooly bear caterpillar, themilder the winter.
Note the first day of snow: it will correspond to the number of
winter storms.
The more silk on the ears of corn, the more snow will fall.
If Nov. l, St. Martin's day, is cold and dry, winter weather won't last long.
The more nuts squirrels gather in the fall, the more severe
the winter. The bushier their tails, the more it will snow.
Cut six onions in half and designate a month to each onion half.
Scoop out the middle of each half and fill it with salt. If the
salt melts, bad weather will prevail for that month.
There are others, one about something before St. James' day.
I don't remember.
----please, draw me a sheep----
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Lightning before Easter, fall on your keister?
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I don't care what the gopher says. I saw snowdrops in bloom yesterday.
It's Spring!
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We had snowdrops yesterday but they were coming out the sky.
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Snowdrops snowdrops everywhere but not one snowdrop here.
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