March Weather Myths

There might have been a time, centuries ago, when the weather was fairly predictable, and such a proverb could occasionally hold true. These days it isn't, and they don't. The closest you'll get is Flanders and Swann's "A Song of the Weather" , which seems to hold true in the UK.

I think that's what they call a "belief bias". When you want to believe something (like an old proverb) your perceptions will key in on those aspects that support your belief and you will tend to ignore those things that don't support your belief.

Just like believing the weather we have now is so much worse and unpredictable than it was 50 or 100 or 400 years ago.

I wouldn't be surprised to find it true somewhere. I would be surprised to find it true everywhere.

There is truth in it, but this article stupidly applies a figurative proverb as though it were a literal proverb. It is in the middle of a period when the winter weather pattern switches to it's summer pattern. During this period, roughly, the month of March although it can come early or late, there are pressure gradients that promote high winds, ask any kite enthusiast.

Here on the Mid Atlantic Seaboard, many of the winter storms are "Alberta Clippers" but in summer, our storms tend to come up from the Gulf of Mexico. The Jet stream average patterns are quite distinct. That change over unsettles the weather.

You can hardly expect weather sayings to be transferrable across countinents!
Get a grip!
Agreed weather paterns are changing, and the saying did often reflect the English climate.
The US is so vast you can hardly expect any saying to be applicable across two seaboards and a huge variation of latitude.
Alaskan weather sayings are no good in Florida.
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