Response to Weather Wisdom

I live in NE Texas. My grandma always said that a bank of clouds in the west at sundown means rain before daylight. That generally holds true. As to the corn, the saying about the oak leaves is used here, but a more reliable method is to wait until you hear the mourning doves call. When they call, they are nesting, and freezing weather is past. There is also the saying that if snow stays on the ground three days, it will snow again. That used to pretty well be true also, but the last ten years, it hasn't worked that way. I believe we are in the middle of a large scale climate change. I'm not sure any of the old weather lore will prove true much longer.

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