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Folklore Weather Forecasting

Before modern scientific weather forecasting, people whose lives and livelihoods depended on the weather (such as shepherds and fishermen), relied on weather lore to foretell the weather.

 

 

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These beliefs were passed down from generation to generation and have became part of our different cultures.  Lots of weather proverbs are nothing more than familiar rhymes but a few of these sayings do actually have some scientific basis.

 

 

 

About this page:
author: Elmar Uherek
English language reviewing: Sally Taylor, University of Leeds

 

farmers' work,haymaking

1. Also without professional weather forecast farmers' had to choose the right time for haymaking in the past.
Source: Dorfmuseum Schönwalde
 

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