Wednesday, April 10, 2019

What I Know about the Weather





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What I Know about the Weather




My grandmother said if you saw a lot of sparrows on the ground, there would soon be snow. She always hid a chilly pepper inside her wallet. Sparrows are losing the battle to magpies and crows.  If you hear an owl during the day, that means a storm is coming. The sparrow has lived with the man since the Stone Age.  Cows will stop grazing and will smell the wind before a change of weather. Ice is melting worldwide.  If a rooster is rolling in the dust, hot weather is coming. Some butterflies have migrated north. My grandmother was not allowed to eat chilly peppers because of her gallbladers. Global sea levels are rising. The weather forecast written inside a pig’s spleen is better and more accurate than the  official one, the butcher said. Some regions are experiencing severe drought. If a spider is hiding in shadows, there will be rain. Mosquitoes and ticks are thriving.  If the wind doesn’t stop after 3 days, it will blow for a week. If a bear sees his shadow on Candlemass day, the winter is not over.  If, after a week, the wind doesn’t stop, it will blow for two weeks more. My grandmother said her soul would yearn for chilly peppers forever.




GloPoWriMo Day 10 - a poem about the weather
Based on Serbian folk meteorology and on this article.

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