Weather Forecasts

[keyholekatebaron]

Was there any truth in the seaweed and fir cones and the old country/farmers ways of telling what weather was in store? I often wonder with the highly sophisticated computers etc.,used these days.

[Robinia]

I had an elderly neighbour who was always spot on with the weather simply by observation of the sky, wind, nature etc.
A fir cone will indicate the weather as it is, not what's to come. They open when it's fine and close when it's wet.

[Ann]

My old Grandma always swore she know what was predicted by "the bones in me leg!"

[squarebear]

The seaweed one was nonsense. If the seaweed is wet, that means it is raining?! You don't say...

[boxtops]

.. or the tide's just come in...