Candlemass day??

[Greythundercloudys]

Today is candlemass day, the date is halfway threw the winter calender, so up there in scotland it dry and fair, so half the winter still to come and mare! I think there is more to those saying than just old folks tales, another try saying is as the dayz lengthen,the cold strengthens, that one is true. Also oak before the ash is splash splash,but ash before the oak is soak,soak soak, that's often true as well, any other weather saying out there?

 

[Floordoor]

Not about weather but have heard the old boy say an old saying, ‘should be left with half your hay on candlemass day’ (or silage in most cases these days)

 

[Lili]

'If the wind's in the east on Candlemas Day, there it will stay til the second of May'

or

'If Candlemas be fair and bright, winter will have another flight'

(Apparently)

 

[DeeGee]

“In your barn on Candlemass Day should be half your straw and half your hay.”
Today has certainly been dry bright and sunny here, so if the saying is true we will get much more wintry weather before spring?

 

[Paddington]

Groundhog Day in the US. Punxsutawney Phil has predicted 6 more weeks of winter, but according to NOAA records he has only been right in 5 out of the last 15 years.
Bit like our Met Office then.
Would you trust a forecaster whose address is Gobbler's Knob ?

 

[The Agrarian]

A man frae north Antrim towl me the other day that the old people used to say that if the snow lay at the dyke back in November, it would lie every month til april

 

[Greythundercloudys]

Another one if a duck could walk over ice on a pond before November, there would be a mild winter a head. That is quiet a true one.

 

[borderterribles]

Another one if a duck could walk over ice on a pond before November, there would be a mild winter a head. That is quiet a true one.

Or as the saying goes
November ice to bear a duck,
The Winter will be slush and muck!

 

[Mrs Brown]

If ice holds up a goose before Christmas it wont hold up a mouse after.
Well Candlemass day was the best day up here since second week in Sep ,luckily we have more than half our silage left but straw is a different matter as harvest was so wet a lot of straw never got baled.

 

[Old Boar]

Candlemass is a tradition for the churches to bring forward all of the candles to be used for the rest of the year for a special blessing apparently.
It was also Imbolc - the Pagan festival. It marks the middle of winter and the move to spring. It is all about hoping for success in the farming season – and wishing for a fertile year ahead, the 'quickening of the year' - Here is hope. We welcome the growth of the returning light and witness Life's insatiable appetite for rebirth. - and as farmers we are beginning to notice the changes and look forward to the spring.

I am not a Pagan, but like the thinking in this!

 

[llamedos]

Imbolc from Imbolg - in the belly, the earth and life are expectant of new birth.