If there be a rainbow in the eve, it will rain and leave,
But if there be a rainbow in the morrow, it will neither lend nor borrow.
A rainbow in the morning
Is the shepherd’s warning;
But a rainbow at night
Is the shepherd’s delight.
No tempest, good July,
Lest corn come off blue by.
When the wind’s in the east,
It’s neither good for man nor beast.
When the wind’s in the south,
It’s in the rain’s mouth.
When the wind’s in the south,
It blows the bait into the fishes’ mouth.
No weather is ill,
If the wind be still.
When the sloe-tree is as white as a sheet,
Sow your barley, whether it be dry or wet.
A green winter makes a fat churchyard.
Hail brings frost in the tail.
A snow year, a rich year.