22 Old Weather Proverbs That Are Actually True
https://www.artofmanliness.com/articles/22-old-weather-proverbs-that-are-actually-true/
(snip) To help with this task of predicting the weather, farmers, sailors, and amateur meteorologists of all kinds came up with handy, often rhyming proverbs that could guide their observations. They realized that animal behavior, wind direction, air pressure (which could be measured with a barometer), etc., were pretty accurate indicators of how the weather would behave. ---CONTINUED---