Hot weather and the Moon

[Frederick]

On a visit to a village just south of Limoges in the past few days where it rained ...thundered and was cold ...I learned fom the locals the hot weather will come with the new moon on the 14th....certainly hot here today..in Vendee..is this some old wives tale or is there anything in it ?

[Jacqui Too]

There might be something in it because the day after is Saint Swithins Day and this is what I found:

St. Swithin's Day

St. Swithin's Day is 15th July, a day on which people watch the weather for tradition says that what ever the weather is like on St. Swithin's Day, it will continue so for the next forty days.

There is a weather-rhyme is well known throughout the British Isles since Elizabethan times.

'St Swithin’s Day, if it does rain
Full forty days, it will remain
St Swithin’s Day, if it be fair
For forty days, t'will rain no more.'

Hope it stops raining , I need to get my hay cut and in the barn[:-))] 

Jackie                          

[Patf]

The phases of the  moon have very strong influences on lots of things from gardening, animals' oestrol(?) cycle, tides , mental stability, also weather. Especially the full moons in March/April and Sept/Oct. Don't ask why - I know the theory behind some but not all.