DAYS AND TIMES

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• #936

  The first Tuesday after the new moon settles the weather for that quarter.

  Newfoundland.
• #937

  If it is a fair sunset Friday night, it will rain before Monday.

  Massachusetts.
• #938

  If it storms on a Friday, it will storm again before the next Monday.

  Massachusetts and New York.
• #939

  If the sun sets clear Friday night, it will not rain before Monday night; but if it sets in a cloud, it will rain before Monday night.

  Boston, Mass.
• #940

  The weather of the last Friday in the month governs the next month.

  Cambridge, Mass.
• #941

  There will be sun during some part of Saturday the year through.

  Brookline, Mass.
• #942

  If it rains the last Saturday or the first Sunday in a month, it will rain the three following Sundays.

  Maine.
• #943

  The sun shines some part of every Saturday in the year but one.

  New England.
• #944

  Saturday’s moon comes seven years too soon, and denotes bad weather.

  Newfoundland.
• #945

  Sunday’s sail
  Will never fail.

  Topsail Bay, N. F.
• #946

  Weather is apt to repeat itself in the following week, i. e., there will be a run of wet Sundays or fine Tuesdays, etc.

  Brookline, Mass.
• #947

  The first seven days of January indicate the first seven months of the year. Mild days, mild months, etc.

  Nova Scotia.
• #948

  If March comes in like a lamb, it goes out like a lion, and vice versa.

  General in the United States.
• #949

  The corn is planted when the Baltimore orioles appear, or when the first green is noticed on the oak-trees.

  Milton, Mass.
• #950

  A dry May and a wet June
  Make the farmer whistle a merry tune.

  Franklin Centre, R. I.
• #951

  It rains often on July fourth. That is due to the firing of cannon, etc.

  General in the United States.
• #952

  If there is a wet September, there will be a next summer’s drouth; no crops and famine.

  California.
• #953

  If it rains on Easter, it will rain seven Sundays thereafter.

  Hennepin, Ill.
• #954

  A green Christmas makes a full churchyard, or
  A green Christmas makes a fat graveyard.

  General in the United States.
• #955

  The twelve days at Christmas govern the weather of the months of the coming year.

  Eastern Massachusetts.
• #956

  The twelve days at Christmas time make the almanac for the year.

  Massachusetts.
• #957

  It is a general notion that a cold winter is followed by a hot summer, and vice versa.

• #958

  It always rains while the Cadets are in camp.

  Eastern Massachusetts.
• #959

  It always rains during May meetin’s.

  Boston, Mass.
• #960

  It always rains during a cattle-show.

  Deerfield, Mass.
• #961

  Women “cruising,” i. e., visiting about on “pot-days,” especially Sundays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays, when people have their best dinner (usually pork and cabbage) in the pot, is a sign of bad weather. But it is also said that it is a sign of mild weather.

  Newfoundland and Labrador.