This section is from the book "Kentucky Superstitions", by Daniel Lindsey Thomas, Lucy Blayney Thomas. Also available from Amazon: Kentucky Superstitions.
2327. If animals have heavy fur, expect a hard winter.
2328. If you step on an ant, there will be rain.
2329. In spring and summer, during the season of thunderstorms, the barometer is unsteady preceding rain, a condition that is not observed during colder months............................Lexington
2330. Before spring and summer rains, the barometer usually falls to 29.90 or below, and before autumn and winter to 30........................Lexington
2331. After a drought the cry of a rain crow near a settlement is a sure sign of rain.
2332. The singing of birds and hens during rain is an indication of approaching fair weather.
2333. If birds gather together in multitudes on the ground, there will shortly be snow.....Mountains
2334. If you see a bluebird today, you may expect a fair day tomorrow......................Mountains
2335. If a bob-white says "Bob" only once, that is, does not repeat the first note, there will be rain.................................Western Kentucky
1The weather signs in this list from Lexington and Louisville are taken from "Weather Folk-Lore and Local Weather Signs," by Edward B. Gar-riott, U. S. Department of Agriculture, Weather Bureau, page 101 for Lexington; page 103 for Louisville.
Many of the weather signs given below are based on logical causes. They are included with the weather superstitions because they are all folk signs and because no distinction is felt by the superstitions between the logical signs and the superstitions.
2336. If you take the last piece of bread on a plate by accident, you may look for rain........Blue Grass
2337. To burn brush will cause rain.
2338. When the rain makes large bubbles on the ground, there will be rain the next day.
2339. Yellow butterflies in the fall show that within ten days there will be enough frost to turn the leaves the color of the butterflies.
2340. If a calf plays, there will be falling weather.
2341. If the camphor bottle is not clear, you may expect rain...............................Blue Grass
2342. If the camphor bottle is clear, you may expect pretty weather.....................Blue Grass
2343. The rising of camphor in a bottle signifies rain.............................Western Kentucky
2344. If candy will not get hard, there will be rain. The condition is really caused by relative humidity.... ..................................Blue Grass
2345. There will be rain soon when the carpet on the floor becomes wet.
2346. If a cat sleeps before the fire with its nose turned up, there will be rain soon.........Central Kentucky
2347. If a cat turns on its back with its nose up, there will be rain.............................Mountains
2348. If a cat sits with its back toward the fire, cold weather may be expected.
2349. If cats play with their tails, bad weather is imminent.
2350. When a cat runs about the house and plays, you may expect high winds.
2351. Expect rain when a cat washes its face around its ear.
2352. Caterpillars in the fall that are brown in the middle and yellow at each end prophesy a severe middle winter with mild weather at each end.
2353. You may expect rain when you see a chicken lying on its side.
2354. When a chicken oils its feathers, one may expect rain.
2355. When chickens fly upon something and pick their feathers, the rain is over.
2356. If chickens seek shelter during a rain, the rain will be only a shower.
2357. If chickens do not seek shelter during a rain, it will rain all day, or at least for some hours.
2358. "If the cock goes crowing to bed, It will rise with a watery head."
2359. You may expect a cold winter if the inside of a chicken gizzard sticks tight when you take it out.
2360. When the inside of a chicken gizzard comes out easily, you may expect a light winter.
2361. If cocks crow at about eight o'clock at night, there will be rain the next day.
2362. If a rooster crows after dark and before midnight, there will be rain before morning.
2363. The crowing of chickens at midnight indicates the approach of bad weather.
2364. The coming of the robin is the surest sign of spring.
2365. If a chicken crows more than ten times, there will be bad weather......................Mountains
2366. If when it is raining the cock crows before noon, the afternoon will be clear..............Blue Grass
2367. The crowing of a cock before twelve o'clock noon means a change of weather...........Blue Grass
2368. If a chimney that is blown from your house during a storm falls on the left of the house, you will have bad luck...........................Blue Grass
2369. If the wind comes down the chimney, the weather will be very cold........North-eastern Kentucky
2370. Cirrus, cirro-stratus, and alto-stratus clouds are almost invariably forerunners of rain in all seassons ..................................Lexington
2371. Cirrus and cirro-stratus clouds indicate rain, but are far from being a sure sign. They frequently appear for several hours, disappear, and re-appear the next day........................Louisville
2372. No special cloud formation is known on which it would be safe to predict rain more than twenty-four hours in advance. Some cloud formations are of decided assistance, however, if used in connection with a knowledge of the location of approaching storm areas......................Louisville
2373. Pink clouds seen in the west in the evening prophesy rain.........................Mountains
2374. There will be fair weather if the clouds have a golden appearance .....................Mountains
2375. Buttermilk clouds are seen before rain.
2376. Three successive cloudy mornings mean that there will be rain on the third.
2377. Cobwebs on the grass are a sign of rain.
2378. When corn twists up, there will be rain. Mountains
 
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