"If Candlemas day be fair and bright,
Winter will have another flight;
If on Candlemas day there be shower and rain,
Winter is gone and will not come again."
Another version of this proverb current in the north of England is,—
"If Candlemas day be dry and fair,
The half of winter's to come and mair;
If Candlemas day be wet and foul [pronounce fool],
The half of winter's gone to Yule."
March comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb.
March comes in with adder heads and goes out with peacock tails.—Scotch.
A peck of March dust is worth a king's ransom.
A dry March never begs its bread.
A peck of March dust and a shower in May
Make the corn green and the fields gay.
March winds and April showers
Bring forth May flowers.
Make clothes white and maids dun.
So many mists in March you see,
So many frosts in May will be.
March grass never did good.