Spring is the favorite season of most people, because it's time for the first drip, warm sun and singing birds returning from the south. In the spring everything comes alive and blossoms. There are certain folk spring signs, which the ancestors collected for centuries, and they were guided and predicted the weather, which was especially important for the beginning of sowing.
Spring signs for March, April and May
March is the month when the sun starts to warm up a little bit more, but the wind is still blowing in winter, it's not for nothing that they say: "Martok - do not take off the portico." However, when observing weather, plants and animals, it was already possible to make forecasts for the first month of spring:
- The first peals of thunder this month could already tell a lot, but they also paid attention to the direction of the wind: the northern promised a cold spring, the eastern one - dry and warm weather, the western promised an abundance of rains, and the southern warm spring;
- to the spring signs of weather include the following: early rooks and larks returned-expect a warm spring;
- if the snow around the tree forms circles with steep edges, then the spring will be steep, that is, fast, and the gently sloping edges promise a prolonged and prolonged warming.
In April, the spring is already more firmly entrenched, covering the branches of trees with young leaves and pleasing longer sunny days. Signs for this month are:
- The birch generously allocates juice - to late autumn;
- if birds are building nests on the sunny side, this promises a cold summer;
- a nut covered with a strong ovary, foretells thunderstorms;
- Ducks splash in the ponds and scream - to the rain.
May in some southern regions is so hot that it looks more like summer. The grass is blossoming, the lilacs are blooming, and the weather is such that you want to sing. Popular spring signs about the weather are:
- the rain in May promises a good harvest;
- if on the 10th of May the sun rises clear - wait for a windy summer;
- if a nightingale sings a lively song on May 15th, then it was said that the spring had begun to wane and the summer to profit;
- May 24 is the day of Makey the Wet. The rain on this day promises the same wet weather all summer.
Spring folk signs of nature
Watching nature - the movement of the sun and the moon, clouds and wind, people made predictions for many months ahead. The behavior of plants, insects, birds and animals was also of great importance and helped to make predictions. Here are some of the signs, based on observations of nature, namely plants, celestial bodies, clouds and wind:
- if the first leaves are covered with birch, and not alder - the summer months will be dry, and if on the contrary - rainy;
- if the sun is "to blame" for the snow, there will be an abundant harvest, and if the rains try, then do not escape the drought;
- the flowering of the dandelion in the early spring foreshadowed a short summer;
- the glitter of lightning without thunder early in the spring promises dry summer;
- rainy February promises wet spring and summer, and if the weather is dry, then this will be the whole warm season;
- If during the day there is a strong smell of yellow acacia, then rain is imminent;
- If the oak is green before the ash tree, then the summer promises to be dry.
Signs based on the behavior of animals, insects and birds:
- to Russian spring signs include the following: bathing crows in early spring promises warmth;
- If the knock of a woodpecker is heard in March, the spring will come late;
- the abundance of May beetles promises a dry summer;
- the dog rolls on the earth to a thunderstorm, and if it sprawls and spreads its paws in different directions, then inevitably warming;
- a loud squeal of a pig promises a bad weather, and if a swab is scratched, it promises warm weather;
- In the morning the lark singing is inaudible - the weather is approaching;
- The excitement among the frogs and their loud croaking promise a bad weather;
- If the rabbits do not fade for a long time in the spring, then the heat should not be expected soon.