Is Cracking The Flags A Nautical Term For Windy Or Does It Mean Hot Weather

[LORDHATHWAY]

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[sandyRoe]

You'd think it would mean very windy.

[2sp_]

I thought cracking the flags meant it was very windy. But I could be wrong.

[frugalfred]

http://northerncobblestone.blogspot.co.uk/2013/07/meaning-of-cracking-flags.html

[sandyRoe]

Cracking the flagstones, I see. Hot then.

[2sp_]

I'd heard of cracking the pavement (meaning hot), but I guess that's just a modernisation of cracking the flagstones.

[B00]

Here in the NW it means it's hot weather.

[woofgang]

I don't think its a nautical term though.

[2sp_]

All this time I thought they were two different phrases with different meanings.

God, I'm dense.

[boxtops]

all the definitions on the web talk about hot weather, so it's nothing to do with flags on poles, it's flagstones