Gramp's Weather Forecast

HERE'S A POEM GRAMP'S FOUND AND WANTED TO SHARE WITH ALL YOU NICE FOLKS SO YOU CAN TELL THE WEATHER NO MATTER WHERE YOU ARE.

Poem by Marie Marshall

When restless winds begin to blow and darkened clouds are hanging low,

When smoke comes down and puppies sleep and frogs from under lilies peep.

When the sun is pale as it goes down and the moon wears halos for a crown,

When chairs and tables start to groan and Grandma's joints cause her to moan,

When hens cluck loud and the kittens mew and walls are damp as morning dew,

When humid air causes hogs to snort and flies annoy the cows for sport,

When the cricket's chirp is high and clear and the fawn crowds close to mother deer,

When fish in the pond begin to rise and squalid toads blink sleepy eyes,

When a fox eats grass on yonder hill and the blackbird's call is sharp and shrill.

When swallows perch on a weather vane, you can be sure it's gonna rain.

Here are some weather tips that help you forecast the weather and be pretty durn accurate. (JUST LOOK TO THE SKIES)

A red sunset, slightly purple, with bright blue sky overhead foretells fine weather.

A gray, cloudy sunset indicates rain. If the sun looks indistinct and white before sunset, it foretells storms.

A whitish yellow sunset sky means rain during the night or early the next day.

Brilliant and queer colors in the sunset, with hard outlines around the clouds, foretell rain and probably wind.

Usually clear air and very bright stars are an indication of rain.

A red sky in the morning means much wind and rain. A gray sky in the morning with breaking clouds indicates fine weather.

Fog fortell settled weather.

If distant sounds carry very distinctly, rain will come soon.

Heavy dew in hot weather means continued fine weather. No dew foretells rain.

Changeable winds are an indication of changeable weather.

If the clouds move in a different direction from the air on the ground, the wind is changing.

Soft, delicate-looking clouds are an omen of fine weather.

Hard-edged, oily looking clouds mean wind.

Small, inky clouds foretell rain.

Small clouds driven across heavy, massive clouds mean wind and rain.

Clouds like streamers, moving rapidly and high in the air, foretell an approaching storm.

* A morning rainbow means rain: an eveningrainbow, fair weather.


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