2635. If smoke goes down stream, expect rain.

2636. If smoke goes down the valley, rain may be expected.

2637. When coal smoke and gas puff out into the room with a singing noise, snow may be looked for.

2638. If a snake crosses your path, there will be rain.

2639. To kill a snake and turn it over will cause rain.

2640. If a black snake is killed and hung on a fence, rain will come.

2641. The hanging of a black snake up by the tail will bring rain before night.

2642. When snipes cry, winter is over........................................North-eastern Kentucky

2643. If the snow melts from the trees, the snow will leave the ground in a rain.

2644. If the snow is blown off the trees, there will be another snow soon before the current snow melts.

2645. Snow left unmelted in the fence corner brings another snow.

2646. When you see snowbirds flying along a rail fence, you may expect the weather to be much colder within the next twenty-four hours.

2647. If you kill a spider, there will be rain that day......................................Mountains

2648. If you kill a spider on a rainy day, it will rain the next day..........................Mountains

2649. You may expect bad weather when a squirrel gathers nuts.

2650. When the squirrel hoards are large, there will be a cold winter.

2651. If the stars are thick, there will be rain.

2652. If an old person stumbles, there will be rain the next day.........................Central Kentucky

2653. If the sun shines while it is raining, there will be rain the next day.

2654. If it rains while the sun is shining, there will be rain at the same time the next day.

2655. "Ring around the sun, rain none;

Ring around the moon, rain soon".....Mountains

2656. If the sun draws water in the morning, there will be rain in the evening.

2657. If the sun shines while it is snowing, there will be snow the next day.

2658. It always rains for five days in succession after an eclipse of the sun.

2659. When the telephone wires sing, a change of weather may be expected.

2660. To kill a toad will cause rain.

2661. If rain drops cling to the twigs of trees, there will be more rain.

2662. If tree leaves wither, there will be rain.

2663. If you see the white on leaves when the wind is blowing, there will be rain.

2664. When maple leaves turn up, there will be rain.

2665. If you hear whistling among the trees in a mountain, you may expect rain before dawn.. Mountains

2666. When the trees have heavy foliage, there will be a hard winter.

2667. If bark grows on the north side of a tree, there will be a cold winter.

2668. If snow sticks to the sides of trees and houses, there will be snow again in forty-eight hours.

2669. If sycamore trees are white and smooth in the autumn, a mild winter may be expected.

2670. If a tree toad croaks, it will rain.

2671. Turkeys dance (that is, jump up and down) before rain.

2672. The carrying of an umbrella scares the rain away.

2673. Foam on the water is a sign of rain.........................................Southern Kentucky

2674. A sweating water pitcher is a sign of rain.

2675. A whirlwind going east is a sign of rain.

2676. If a whirlwind goes down stream, there will be rain soon.

2677. Whirlwinds of dust are a sign of dry weather.

2678. If it begins raining while the wind is blowing from the east, there will be rain every day for seven days.

2679. Precipitation is generally preceded for eighteen to twenty-four hours by southeast to northeast winds and falling barometer................Lexington

2680. In all seasons rain is preceded for twelve to thirtysix hours by southeast to northeast winds and falling barometer, and the barometer generally falls to 29.90 or below in spring, summer, and winter and to 30 or below in autumn before the rain begins ...............................Louisville

2681. If the wind is in the south on the first day of the year, it will not be out of the south forty-eight hours within forty days.......Western Kentucky

2682. During periods of abnormally high temperature the wind is from the south in spring and winter and from the southwest in summer and autumn......................................... Lexington

2683. Cold winds of all seasons are from the northwest.. ................................... Lexington

2684. During periods of very high temperature prevailing winds are from southeast to east in spring, southwest to northwest in summer, and south to southeast in autumn and winter........Louisville

2685. During very low temperature prevailing winds are from the west, northwest, or north......Louisville

2686. Severe winter storms are preceded by east to northeast winds.........................Lexington

2687. Before summer rains the wind is usually from south to east............................Lexington

2688. Stretch a yarn string over beans and other young plants in the early spring, to protect them from frost. The frost will collect on the yarn and the plants will not be injured.

2689. Any noise during a thunderstorm is dangerous...............................Central Kentucky

2690. Music during a thunderstorm is very dangerous.............................. Central Kentucky

2691. If you sit on a feather bed, the lightning will not strike you.

2692. If the lightning strikes twice in the same place, there is mineral in the ground there near the surface ............................Central Kentucky

2693. Many negroes will not burn the wood of a tree that has been struck by lightning for fear that their houses will burn or be struck by lightning..................................Western Kentucky

2694. When sunshine and rain come together, the Devil is beating his wife. If you put a black-headed pin into the clay and put your ear to the pin head, you may hear them.

2695. There is a pot of gold at the bottom of the rainbow.

2696. If an east wind blows for three days in the spring, there will be no acorns, beech nuts, and the like that year...............North-eastern Kentucky

2697. If it thunders heavily while a hen is sitting, it will kill the chickens.

2698. If it thunders while ducks are sitting, the eggs will not hatch.

2699. If the sun looks red like blood at the sunset of a rainy day, a sudden death will soon take place.