...this obvious deficiency in the forecast has been remedied, completely if not elegantly, as follows: If Candlemas Day be fair and bright, Winter will have another flight, But if Candlemas Day bring clouds and rain, Winter is gone and won't come again. In America we very commonly call this Ground-hog...

...interest to learn the weather that is to follow. This is, no doubt, owing to a couplet, which says: "If Candlemas Day be fair and bright, Winter will have another flight." In New England, many farmers used to look over their bins and corn cribs to ascertain whether there...

...days." " If Janiveer calends be summerly gay, 'T will be winterly weather till the calends of May. If Candlemas day be fair and bright, Winter will have another flight." So on endlessly. And any modern weather prophet who undertakes to set down a schedule, so to say, of...

...forty days." " If Janiveer calends be summerly gay, T will be winterly weather till the calenda of May. If Candlemas day be fair and bright, Winter will have another flight." So on endlessly. And any modern weather prophet who undertakes to set down a schedule, so to say, of...

...snow and cold is to come; but \i it snows or rains he will creep out as the winter is ended. * * * If Candlemas day be fair and bright, Winter will have another flight, But if Candlemas day bring clouds and rain, Winter is gone and won't come again. * * * On Candlemas day the bear, badger,...

...pale blossom of the unripened year.'' On Candlemas Day itself, the old metrical proverb is given : " If Candlemas Day be fair and bright, Winter will have another flight; If Candlemas Day be clouds and rain, U inter's gone and will not come again." Or, as in the writer's...

...Dunwoody, 102 (Candlemas day if it be fair / The half of the winter's to come and mair); Garriott, 42 (If Candlemas Day be fair and bright, / Winter will have another flight. / But if Candlemas Day brings clouds and rain, / Winter is gone and won't come again) — New England: Johnson, What They...

...days." " If Toil mil ealejkds be summerly pay. T will be winterly weather tili the calends of May. If Candlemas day be fair and bright. Winter will have another flight." So on endlessly. And any modern weather prophet who undertakes to set and Weather Wisdom. down a schedule,...

...famine and plague. One other reason for the Church's emphasis on candles was to counteract these pagan ‘If Candlemas Day be fair and bright, Winter will have another flight; But if it be dark with clouds and rain, Winter is gone and will not come again.' Tradition also names the...

...(Luke 2, 32). Candlemas Day is another of those which has traditional weather lore attached to it: If Candlemas Day be fair and bright, Winter will have another flight; But if it be dark with clouds and rain, Winter is gone and will not come again.' Tradition also names the...