Some insects have a tendency to be mean when rain is approaching. Wasps have a tendency of stinging and fleas will bite fiercely. Watch your arms for flea bites and don't let the wasp get you as they really hurt. St Paul is said to reveal the weather for the year ahead. This is a good guide for the first six months, but after that tails off somewhat. However, it has been known to be 90% correct and in one year, 100% correct. Clear moon, frost soon". If the night sky is clear enough to see the moon and the temperature drops a-lot, frost will form.

Without reference to any modern technology, radio, TV, newspapers, mobile Apps and any other such source how ever do you tell what the weather might be like exactly 16 weeks ahead of the day you read this?This new book explains what to look for and see, month to month from January to December, in the countryside, and how such observation will improve your knowledge of nature. At the same time you will look and see just how wonderful nature is by providing weather information at least 90 days ahead. Again this was not within the knowledge of persons in former times, but I consider this information to be important enough to enter, even as just a precautionary note, to my charts.

I have used these over the years with considerable success, having said that there are some problems with deciding when winter ends and summer starts, and after much trial and error, I use the 1st April to 30th September as the summer period and the rest of the year is designated as winter. As the wind is on St Michael's Day so 't' will be for three months" a fairly dependable indication as to the direction of the wind. To obtain full value from this book and I do not wish to appear impertinent, or rude or condescending, but whilst everyone looks, very few actually see. By this I mean, everyone walks along a lane, to the left is a hedgerow, underfoot some wild flowers (maybe weeds to you now – but by the end of this book, real flowers that each have their importance) but that is all that is seen, in reality if you look, then you will see different shrubs, trees, bushes, grasses and plants. Each of these to a greater or lesser extent supports a whole cycle of insects, birds, butterflies and in some cases, mammals. By deciphering the trees and bushes you will be able to estimate the age of the hedgerow, whether it is an ancient boundary marker, or a more recent addition to the countryside. There is a whole world out there waiting to be discovered, all it needs is for the opening of eyes and seeing what is there, this book is the guide to such treasures. This was first heard in Devon and Dorset, Uncle Offa is not an advocate [and neither is the author]. t is over ambitious, unreliable and out of rhythm with the other Days of Prediction, which occur at regular intervals throughout the year. These are not idle comments but quite reliable observations, which help explain flooding in some parts of the M25 and not others during the summer months, and also the snow conditions in winter months on parts of the eastern road networks.I am a freelance weather presenter for the BBC and am interested in your story, can we have a chat. In winter, with the cold easterly winds in East Anglia, cold weather travels east and south down the A11 to the M25. When bees stay in or hover around their hives it means it is going to rain sometime that day. So if you see no bees in your flower beds you can probably count on rain. Air pressure again is the cause of bees not venturing out too far from their hives.