Natural weather forecasters

Tinkerbell · #1 (**permalink**) 05-03-2005, 03:55 PM

I'm starting to put together some folklore weather forecasting items, one of which states that the sighting of a double rainbow suggest that poor weather will clear. Let me know if you see one, and whether the folklore is accurate.

StuartDH · #2 (**permalink**) 05-03-2005, 06:13 PM

The last time I saw a double rainbow, I was in Wales and it had been raining for most of the day. The rain didn't really stop, it just turned to snow instead.

The rainbows started and finished in the same field that I was standing in whilst I had a good route around in the grass, there was no pots of gold at either end. I'll post the pics of the rainbow as soon as I've joined them together in my photo editor.

I read a piece recently about a elderly weather seer who lived in the north of England but died a few months ago. He used lots of different natural predictors to forecast weather and most of them related to the plants in his garden. I'll see if I can find the article again.