Traditional Culture Encyclopedia - Weather forecast - Animal weather change

Animal weather change

For a long time, the working people in our country have summed up many experiences in forecasting the weather by using animals and insects such as cattle and sheep, chickens and ducks, dragonflies and ants, and their "weather forecast" is often very accurate.

The low flying of swallows is a precursor to rain. Sparrows can't fly far, always fly, sometimes fly high, sometimes fly fast, and it will rain in 30 minutes at 1 hour. Cattle and sheep grazing in the wild don't go home when it is late. They always bend their heads and eat hard, and it will rain the next day. Frog is an animal that sings with vocal cords. It makes sound by opening and closing two small bubbles on both sides of the head. If it is sunny, because the temperature is moderate and the air pressure is normal, the frog's cry is melodious and rhythmic; If the temperature rises when the heavy rain comes, and the temperature rises, making it difficult for the frog's vocal cords to make sounds, the frog will make irregular calls. "The toad barks, and the rain is coming." Toads like humid environment and often hide in sewers, grass or crevices. If it jumps out of the hole and makes a hoarse cry, it means that heavy rain is coming. Ants move high in the forest, and there will be heavy rain in three days. "When ants move to their nests, floods will come." "There are thousands of ants, and it rains cats and dogs." "Ants were running all over the ground, and the weather was fine that day." Dragonflies, butterflies, bees, wasps, moths and other flying insects, if they are in a hurry during the flight, will fly east and west and flap their wings quickly, so it will rain in about an hour or two.