Looking for colloquial Irish sayings describing the weather

muckish

Some general weather lore sayings found elsewhere through google. Interesting, if not a bit off topic.....

If onion skins are very thin, then winter's mild when coming in, but if onion skins are thick and tough, winter comes in cold and rough."


"A halo around the moon means rain soon."


"When Swallows fly high the weather will be dry,but when Swallows fly low get your rain gear in tow."

"Mare's tails and mackerel sky, not long wet and not long dry ."

"The moon and the weather may change together,
But a change of the moon, will not change the weather.

A ring around the sun or moon, means rain or snow coming soon.

When grass is dry at morning light
Look for rain before the night.

Dew on the grass, rain won't come to pass.

Sea gull, sea gull, sit on the sand,
It's never good weather while you're on the land.

When sea-gulls fly to land, a storm is at hand.

Rain before seven, fine before eleven.
Evening red and morning grey, two sure signs of one fine day.

The sudden storm lasts not three hours
The sharper the blast, the sooner 'tis past.

The higher the clouds the better the weather.

Cold is the night when the stars shine bright.

Sound travelling far and wide, a stormy day betide.

When the forest murmurs and the mountain roars,
Then close your windows and shut your doors.

When leaves show their undersides, be very sure that rain betides.

Chimney smoke descends, our nice weather ends.

When the night goes to bed with a fever, it will awake with a wet head.

When stars shine clear and bright,
We will have a very cold night.

When the ditch and pond offend the nose,
Then look out for rain and stormy blows.

Three days rain will empty any sky.

The farther the sight, the nearer the rain.

Rain long foretold, long last,
Short notice, soon will pass.

If bees stay at home, rain will soon come,
If they flay away, fine will be the day.

The first and last frosts are the worst.

When clouds look like black smoke a wise man will put on his cloak.

A rainbow afternoon,
Good weather coming soon.

A rainbow in the morning, is the shepherd's warning
A rainbow at night is the shepherd's delight.

When the chairs squeak, it's of rain they speak.

Catchy drawer and sticky door,
Coming rain will pour and pour.

The winds of the daytime wrestle and fight,
Longer and stronger than those of the night.

Dust rising in dry weather is a sign of approaching change.

Sun sets Friday clear as bell,
Rain on Monday sure as hell.

No weather's ill if the wind be still.

The squeak of the snow will the temperature show.

When smoke hovers close to the ground, there will be a weather change.

When down the chimney falls the soot
Mud will soon be underfoot.

When the sun shines while raining,
it will rain the same time again tomorrow.

When the wind blows from the west, fish bite best.
When it blows from the east, fish bite least.

If salt is sticky,
And gains in weight;
It will rain
Before too late.


When clouds appear like rocks and towers,
The Earth's refreshed by frequent showers.

When the wind is in the east, 'tis neither good for man nor beast.

Garzorico

That's drinkin' weather = it's sunny/windy/raining/hot/cold etc etc etc

Mycroft H

Its a queer cold day....

quercus

when it snowing heavy we say:
its pegging snow.

or or when the hills are closer? its going to rain.

Not

Not wrote: »

Donegal - "Jaysus the frog won't budge, it's going to be a bad one*"

* edit : as in 'winter'

btw OP, just in case you didn't cop it and we end up with stubborn Donegal frogs running amock through your research project:eek:, this one ain't real, it's just a joke based on something the Donegal postman is reported to have said (the frog under the plant pot episode) !

carfiosaoorl

Courtesy of my 3 yr old "Oh no pain stones"

bluefinger

the rain is coming down in straight lines.

number10a

lord lucan wrote: »

It's Baltic out!

IE: It's very cold.:)

Well that's false advertising if ever there was some!! I never get sunburnt, but this summer I got absolutely scalded on the Baltic coast in Helsinki. :mad::mad: I was like a fùcking lighthouse walking around Finland and Estonia for the next five days.

Back on topic; "It's misty out" = "It's torrential"

Enderman wrote: »

It's not snowing here.

- Cork

Ahh yes. The pee'd off response of a Corkonian child to their "up the country" cousins on the phone where it ALWAYS seemed to snow when we were small. NEVER down here though!!!

In my opinion

West Roscommon

"Scald of a day" Cold and cutting type of day

"Boiling rain" humid/thundery with dark black clouds in the sky.

delw

"it's too cold to snow"

eskimocat

"Thats a dirrty looking sky!" the speaker must squint suspiciously at the sky when uttering this... it means there is rain coming...

LOL used this myself today and then thought of this thread... did the whole squinting thing too.. :pac:
It's a Donegal thing maybe... ???? anyone else for that one?

patspost

Some phrases apparently from my grandfather, east Galway

"You could lay your hand on keeper hill", good visibility, rain imminent

"you could have weather from now until Christmas"

Another from a local publican
"high stool weather"

howa .223

its a day for the high stool:)

TURRICAN

There's a shower of frogs coming.
My mother had that saying when there was a big dirty cloud of heavy rain coming.
Frogs?

kkontour

TURRICAN wrote: »

There's a shower of frogs coming.
My mother had that saying when there was a big dirty cloud of heavy rain coming.
Frogs?

Than saying came from the time French military landed on mullaghmore over 200 years ago. Twas a wet day.

TURRICAN

kkontour wrote: »

TURRICAN wrote: »

There's a shower of frogs coming.
My mother had that saying when there was a big dirty cloud of heavy rain coming.
Frogs?

Than saying came from the time French military landed on mullaghmore over 200 years ago. Twas a wet day.

Oh right. Cool!

daffidol

that wind would skin a louse

megatron989

Jasus its fresh out their! (very cold, windy day)
Bray, at least its what I say, must've heard it somewhere.