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People always talked about the weather, especially in
letters. Sailors, fisherman, farmers, and shepards learned to look at
weather signs to try and predict the weather. Some stories were good and
others were myths. One of the earliest weather folklore was in the 4th
century BC, when Theophrastus wrote "If
ants on the side of a hollow carry their eggs from the nest to the high
ground, it indicates rain."
Even Charles Darwin would collect these signs and
create weather verses:
The hollow winds begin to blow
The clouds look
black, the glass is low,
The soot falls
down, the spaniels sleep
And spiders from
their cobwebs peep
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