Bonjour,
Despite advanced weather forecasts the weather stations can only predict a short time in advance and then not always accurately. Here in Normandy we have been informed by our farmer nieghbour that they still predict the weather using old methods.
Apparently the Moon which we know has a direct effect upon the tides can affect the weather also. An old standing Normandy belief is that the number of full moons in a given year either 12 or 13 can predict if it will be a good summer.
We discovered this old rhyme about the moon and will be monitoring it over the year to see if it is true.
Clear Moon, frost soon.
The Full Moon eats the clouds away.
Dark mist over the Moon is a promise of rain.
A Red Moon is a sure sign of high winds.
And should the Moon wear a halo of red, a tempest is nigh.
Many rings around the Moon signal a series of severe blasts.
When the New Moon holds the Old Moon in her lap, expect fair weather.
Sharp horns on the Sickle Moon indicate strong winds.
The heaviest rains fall following the New and the Full Moons.
When the moon’s horns point up, the weather will be dry.
Pale Moon doth rain, Red Moon doth blow,
White Moon doth neither, Rain nor snow.
A bientot
Damian & Steve
