Proverbs List on Climate and Weather

You are aware of how the weather is changing drastically as if it going crazy. It is hard to predict what kind of weird or wacky weather we might be experiencing this afternoon, much less tomorrow or next week. So why not learn some proverbs related to weather.

Climate and Weather Proverbs to Learn from Nature

1. Frogs croaking in the lagoon, means rain will come real soon.
2. When there’s a clear moon, there’s a frost coming soon.
3. When it’s long foretold, long last. Short notice, soon will it pass.
4. April snow breeds grass.
5. A coming storm your mouth presage, throbbing aches, and your hollow tooth shall rage.
6. Rainbow in the morning, sailor’s warning. Rainbow at night, sailor’s delight.
7. When the pond and ditch offend the nose, look for stormy blows.
8. When your pipe smell stronger, it may rain longer.
9. Doors and drawers get stuck, the clouds may soon be full of muck
10. Mackerel skies and mares’s tails, make tall ships carry low sails
11. When the grass be dry at morning light, expect foul rain before the night.
12. When dew is on the grass, rain will never come to pass.
13. When clouds appear like rocks and towers, the world’s refreshed with frequent showers.
14. When smoke descends, good weather ends.
15. If the clouds move against the wind, rain will follow.
16. The moon, her face be red, of water she speaks.
17. If the new moon holds the old moon in her lap, it means fair weather.
18. A ring around the sun or moon means rain will come real soon.
19. When the ass begins to bray, surely rain will come that day.
20. The sharper the blast, the sooner it will pass.
21. Rain before seven? Clear by eleven.
22. The ash before the oak, choke, choke, choke. The oak before the ash, splash, splash, splash.
23. If the spiders be many and spinning their webs, their spell will soon dry.
24. When the glass falls low, prepare for a blow. When the glass is high, let your kites fly.
25. Three days rain will empty any sky.
26. Flowers smell best just before the rain.
27. If the geese honk high, it means fair weather. If the geese honk low, foul weather.
28. If a woolly fleece bestows itself upon the heavenly way, be sure no rain will come today.
29. A red sky at night, sailors delight. Red sky in the morning? Sailor’s warning.
30. Rain from the south prevents the drought, but rain from the west is always best.
31. Anvil-shaped clouds bring on a gale.
32. A cloud with a round top and flat base carries rainfall on its face.
33. When small clouds join and thicken, expect rain.
34. Black clouds in the north in winter indicates approaching snow.
35. If you see clouds going crosswind, there is a storm in the air.
36. Clouds floating low enough to cast shadows on the ground are usually followed by rain.
37. Mackerel sky, mackerel sky, never long wet, never long dry.
38. If a heavy dew soon dries, expect fine weather; if it lingers on the grass, expect rain in 24 hours.
39. With dew before midnight, the next day sure will be bright.
40. If you wet your feet with dew in the morning, you may keep them dry for the rest of the day.
41. Rainbow in the morning gives you fair warning.
42. Clear moon frost soon.
43. A wind from the south has rain in the mouth.
44. A sunny shower won’t last an hour.
45. Red sky at night sailors delight.
46. A reddish sun has water in his eye , before long you won’t be dry.
47. When clouds look like rocks and towers, the earth will be refreshed by showers.
48. When the stars begin to huddle, the earth will soon become a puddle.
49. Mare’s tails and mackerel scales make tall ships take in their sails.
50. A year of snow, a year of plenty.
51. Halo around the sun or moon, rain or snow soon.”
52. Evening gray and morning red Make the shepherd hang his head.
53. An evening gray and a morning red Will send the shepherd wet to bed.
54. Weather is a literary specialty, and no untrained hand can turn out a good article on it
55. There’s no such thing as good weather or bad weather. There are just weather and your attitude towards it
56. The sky is blue today, Max, and there is a big long cloud, and it’s stretched out, like a rope. At the end of it, the sun is like a yellow hole
57. When people went on vacation, they shed their home skins, thought they could be a new person.
58. It’s no use being a rainbow when you live in a family of clouds.
59. It is impossible, to me at least, to be poetical in cold weather.
60. You become the weather you live in.
61. You’d bring me up in conversation forever. And when it rained, I’d be the talk of the day.

Try to learn about the nature’s behavior with these idioms. Use them if you have to give any advice to a younger person for him to make better decision.

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