We are all guilty of referring to weather folklore – yoohoo – The Farmers’ Almanac! Here’s a few myths and truths about Ohio weather that you may or may not have heard:
A green Thanksgiving means a white Christmas or a white Thanksgiving means a green Christmas. Well, it actually has to do with the Jetstream, which fluctuates north and south, usually taking a month to do so.
As the days get longer, the cold gets stronger. The amount of daylight starts increasing beginning with the winter solstice (December 21st) but with that comes the coldest weather of the year.
Thunder in February means frost in May on the same day. If it is warm enough to thunder in February, March is cold, April is warm, and May will be cold enough for frost – the fluctuating (usually taking about a month to change) Jetstream strikes again!
Red sky at morning, sailors take warning – red sky at night, sailors delight. Ohio weather fronts move west to east, so when the clouds are in the eastern sky at morning, the storm is closer to you and when they are in the west in the evening, it is father away.
Wind from the north, a fisherman should not go forth.
Wind from the east, the fish bite least.
Wind from the south, blows the bait in the fish’s mouth.
Wind from the west, the fish bite best.
North and east fronts blow cold, which turn fish off from feeding.
The number of foggy mornings in August is equal to the number of snowy days in winter. The number of August fogs and the number of winter snows somehow seem to correlate. WARNING – we have had many foggy morning this past August, so winter could be pretty snowy.
It’s about this time of year when we start to fret about the winter, hoping for a mild one. Just remember, if we don’t get winter in the winter, we will get winter in the spring.
Information gathered from Meteorologist Jym Ganahi