Here, here Danno. Bit of
Submitted by simonandjo on Tue, 03/09/2010 - 11:42In reply to A newbie all over again! by Annec
weather...in the marche
Submitted by sebastiano on Tue, 03/09/2010 - 11:53In reply to A newbie all over again! by Annec
yes,we're having a lot of weather here at the moment...in the usual pessimistic forecast of the bread lady's mother she assures me because it was bad on the day of some particular saint (whose name i've forgotton)we will now have another forty days and nights of bad weather taking in most of April with a bad easter too.whilst more authorative weather people are talking of a very hot torrid summer...so we'll go probably from winter to summer...again.
Seems they have a more sayings re weather then days of the year
Submitted by danno99 on Tue, 03/09/2010 - 12:12In reply to weather...in the marche by sebastiano
Your bread ladys mum is pretty typical. We have the farmers near me, who you would think might come to weather conclusions based on experience & observations. But, like you say they normally prefer to rely on some rather bizarre sayings. Like snow on march 1st, will mean floods till summer (actually I made that one up, cos I could not remember any of theirs)
on spring.....
Submitted by sebastiano on Tue, 03/16/2010 - 04:31the bread lady's mum and saints apart...we musn't forget the calendar which is still winter until the end of this week 21st march when the spring equinox starts...sometimes...over the last few years it's been notable how really warm weather in south western marche (over 40km from the coast) doesn't seem to really get going until the begining of MAY! whilst anything to be described as vaguely hot not until the snow finally leaves the mountains which,if there's a lot,doesn't happen until some time in june...by which time you'll be staring at the wood pile and wondering about next winter's wood supply ....just to be optimistic you understand
Wrong saint! That is St
Submitted by Gala Placidia on Tue, 03/09/2010 - 12:57In reply to A newbie all over again! by Annec
Wrong saint! That is St Médard, a French saint whose festivity is in June. According to customs, if it rains on his day, it will keep on raining for 40 days..... That's what they say. Now, the patron saint to pray against cold weather is Saint Maurus, an Italian Benedictine monk born in Rome in 512 of a patrician family. He is the one who protects against the cold weather... so he may be more helpful, being Italian... Only problem, taking into account the EU, it may be a good idea to pray to both saints.... There is also a German saint, St Sebaldus. Perhaps the three of them could get together!
funny & informative
Submitted by danno99 on Tue, 03/09/2010 - 20:36In reply to Wrong saint! That is St by Gala Placidia
Spring Saints
Submitted by Ivan on Fri, 03/12/2010 - 18:09In reply to funny & informative by danno99
Seem to remember we had
Submitted by Badger on Tue, 03/09/2010 - 13:42In reply to A newbie all over again! by Annec
SAINT SWITHUN
Submitted by Gala Placidia on Sat, 03/13/2010 - 04:42In reply to A newbie all over again! by Annec
Saint Swithun is very effective in case of a drought. You pray to him if what you want is a good shower. Keeping in mind what regularly happens in the UK, he is a very busy saint! I thought that we were praying for fair weather. In the case of electrical storms, Saint Barbara should be invoked for protection... Possibly they are having some fun together.
UNTIL THE END OF MAY
Submitted by Gala Placidia on Tue, 03/16/2010 - 15:58In reply to A newbie all over again! by Annec