Part 2
  Forecasting the Weather   

This extract is published by kind permission of his children:
Norma Howells and Norman Kerry

I am absolutely sure that the old farm workers could tell the weather for our area for the next few days better than they can today. They went by the following:

   
    ☼   How things turned up damp

    ☼   The wind and which direction it had been blowing in the last few days

    ☼   The sun and moon - how they rose and set

    ☼   Red sky at night, shepherd's delight. Red sky in the morning, shepherd's warning.

    ☼   The angle of the new moon - If it was holding or tipping water. A burr around the moon meant wet weather on the way for sure.

    ☼   How rooks built their nest - High meant a good summer.

    ☼   When the ploughman was ploughing he would see if the worms were deep. If they were it meant that wet weather was on the way