Reading signs of mother nature

old · Jul 13, 2011

Not O/T since it has to do with life in general. Any how any body ever notice things like spider webs and what other bugs/animals do over the years to tell what winter might be like?? Seems that this year the spiders are making webs that get in your way a lot earlier then most years and the garden is not doing well at all. Most years spiders do not make webs you run into till late Aug or early Sept but not this year. So are we going to have a early freeze and a cold long winter or am I not reading nature right?????????

bison · Jul 14, 2011

I will tell ye by november for early frost and again by April next year if the winter was long and/or cold

NCWayne · Jul 14, 2011

Don't know about reading the signs of winter like that but I had an Uncle that told me to watch birds on a rainy day. If they are out feeding in the rain then it will typically rain all day. Somehow they sense things and will stay on the roost if the rain is gonna stop. If it's gonna keep raining, they have to eat just like we do and will get out in the rain to do so. My Uncle told me that close to 35 years ago and to this day I've only seen a handful of times when it didn't ring true.

Anonymous-0 · Jul 14, 2011

Where I come from, if anyone posted a sign, someone tore it down before anyone got a chance to read it..................

Some hunters from town west virginia were real good at reading nature signs......
Roads didn't used to be real good and some of the folks in the bad road areas were a little challenged, so any time a path or log trail would just kinda branch off the "main" road, they'd put up a sign that said "bear right" or "bear left" to keep them on the correct road.
These hunters got all their highspeed hunter gear together and started out on a long night drive so they could get down to where they could bear hunt at first light.......
Got to the area and started looking at the side of the road for tracks and signs of digging in trash, etc.... Then they come up on one of them signs that said "bear left"........ They got maddern' he!! and just drove back home.............................

2x4 · Jul 14, 2011

I thought it was awful early for fall webworms & spiders webs. Time kinda slips by but I didn't think it had went that fast here in mid-Tenn. I'd say about a month early here.

Anonymous-0 · Jul 14, 2011

Already for about 2 weeks the 17 year locusts have been singing in the evenings here in Ohio. Seems early for that, the old saying when you started hearing them was "6 weeks til frost".

JHH · Jul 14, 2011

It makes me smile when people start quoting these old saws about the weather.
Had a neighbor years ago who would say "if there isn't a cloud in the sky it will rain within 24 hours" and then say " well they say all signs fail in dry weather".
"Rain before seven done by eleven" but if it is going to rain all day it must start in the morning.
Seems like there is always a quote the covers the exception.

fixerupper · Jul 14, 2011

"Rain before seven, done by eleven" is true and proven during the summer here in the midwest. The conditions that make rain at night are different than during the daytime. Seems like in the other seasons it'll rain anytime it wants to and quit anytime it wants to. Jim

Mike (WA) · Jul 14, 2011

We tend to get into "patterns" in western Washington. If there's not a cloud in the sky, it may not rain for a month. And rain before 7 will generally NOT be done by eleven- at least on the same day. Usually takes a couple of days for a front to go through. We seldom have thunderstorms (never the really showy ones like in the midwest), and rain is fairly predictable now that we have satellite photos of the Pacific.

dgasper · Jul 14, 2011

When I was a kid on the dairy farm, one of my jobs was to round up the cows and get them to the barn in the early morning. Sometimes the dew on the grass would get my feet wet, sometimes the grass was dry. I figured out that dry grass = rain in the next 24 hours, wet grass = no rain next 24. Though not 100% it was more accurate than the weatherman.

James Babcock · Jul 14, 2011

I'll have to wait until the persimmons fruit up and drop so I can bust open a seed and predict the winter (learned it from some NE Oklahoma Cherokees). When you split the seed, the cotyledon inside has the shape of either a spoon, fork or knife. If it's a spoon, that's the same as a shovel, and that means you'll need a big snow shovel to keep up with the heavy snow. Danged if I remember what the other two mean......

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