Comments on: Non Ci Sono Piu’ Le Mezze Stagioni: Talking About the Weather in Italy

By: Odissea

Odissea — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 08:38:03 +0000

Mena said: Rosso di sera….

In English we say, “Red sky at night – shepherd’s delight, red sky in the morning – shepherd’s warning. “

By: Mena

Mena — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 23:05:53 +0000

Rosso di sera, bel tempo di spera; rosso di mattina la pioggia si avvicina.

if in the evening the sky is red, then we think it will be sunny the next day; but if the sky is red in the morning, then it’s going to rain

sorry if my english isn’t good enough

By: Sara

Sara — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 03:34:55 +0000

I believe I’ve heard it called (re: English weather) SAMPLES of weather…

We are certainly experiencing samples of weather here in the Metro DC area this April 2007 – tropical one day, snow the next…

By: Gina

Gina — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 21:01:24 +0000

Just a brief note. I came across your site accidentally and must say it is very interesting. Looking forward to reading more of your posts.

By: Julia Apodaca

Julia Apodaca — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 14:25:52 +0000

“If you don’t like the weather in Texas, wait a minute.”

This saying is probably used elsewhere, too, but it’s certainly appropriate here. We’d already been having temperatures well into the 80s all over the state, and then this past weekend, there was snow (as far south as Central Texas) as well as sleet and chilly rain. Lots of indoor Easter egg hunts.

I grew up in the Panhandle where we sometimes experience all four seasons in a 24-hour period.

By: vangie

vangie — Sun, 08 Apr 2007 01:48:04 +0000

Every place I’ve been in the US, people will say, “If you don’t like the weather here, wait five minutes [and it will change].” The only place I’ve observed this to be true is in the mountains of Montana.

We’re having an unbelievable cold snap today and tomorrow. It’s supposed to dip to 36 deg. F (2 deg. Celsius) in Houston, Texas tonight. Absolutely unheard of. My poor gardenias!

By: Julia Priest

Julia Priest — Sat, 07 Apr 2007 18:58:43 +0000

Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens) has often been quoted as saying: “Everybody talks about the weather but nobody does anything about it.” Also, my favorite, since I live in New England: “If you don’t like the weather in New England, just wait a few minutes.”

By: Kevin Booker

Kevin Booker — Sat, 07 Apr 2007 09:36:20 +0000

An old English saying coverng theis time of year: “February filldyke, March, black ram, comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb”. “Filldyke” is a reference to February being wet – filling dykes (historically and, indeed, this year, though global warming means the saying is not remotely a reliable guide to what weather to expect, although it does also mean that in the English West Midlands, where I live, you are far more likely, these days, to see rain than snow). As far as March coming in like a lion and going out like a lamb is concerned, that is a reference, I believe, to equinoxial storms, caused by large temperature diferences between the tropics and the pole – as the strength of the sun in the northern hemisphere increases, with the arrival of spring, the tropical regions warm up more quickly than the polar reqions – for the simple reason that the sun doesn’t get above the horizon, at the north pole, until the spring equinox, on 21 March. Once the equinox has passed, the pole starts to warm up, the temperature difference declines slowly (the pole receives 24-hour-a-day daylight, as against 12 at the equator), and by the end of March, the storms cause by the temperature differential start to become less intense. March also sees, of couse, the start of the lambing season in the UK.
The reverse then happens in the autumn – as the sun disappears below the horizon after the autumnal equinox (equal day and night), the pole cools more rapidly than the tropics, the temperature differential increases, and the intense storms of late September/October appear.

By: Sara

Sara — Fri, 06 Apr 2007 19:14:05 +0000

I have always loved the Flanders and Swann Song of the Weather (English Weather)… as follows… For any of you not familiar with Flanders and Swann, I heartily recommend them!

January brings the snow
Makes your feet and fingers glow
February’s Ice and sleet
Freeze the toes right off your feet
Welcome March with wintry wind
Would thou wer’t not so unkind
April brings the sweet spring showers
On and on for hours and hours
Farmers fear unkindly May
Frost by night and hail by day
June just rains and never stops
Thirty days and spoils the crops
In July the sun is hot
Is it shining? No, it’s not
August cold, and dank, and wet
Brings more rain than any yet
Bleak September’s mist and mud
Is enough to chill the blood
Then October adds a gale
Wind and slush and rain and hail
Dark November brings the fog
Should not do it to a dog
Freezing wet December then:
Bloody January again!
(January brings the snow
Makes your feet and fingers glow).

By: webmaster

webmaster — Fri, 06 Apr 2007 05:02:49 +0000

Fascinating! In that case – bring on the April rain!