Quotes About Weather

The weather being fine and dry... he sent his valise on by the coach, and set out to walk.... in the healthful exercise and the pleasant road. It is not easy to walk alone in the country without musing upon something. And he had plenty of unsettled subjects to meditate upon, though he had been walking to the Land's End.

The sea has no mood except that of the sky and of its winds.

What's the difference between weather and climate? You can't weather a tree but you can climate.

Climate... is what a locality has when you are buying a home there, and weather is what it has afterwards.

Long-range weather forecast: It's gonna get real hot, then it's gonna get real cold, then it's gonna get real hot again.

All you need to forecast the weather is a stone on a string — • Stone wet: Rain • Stone dry: Not raining • Shadow on ground: Sunny • White on stone: Snow • Can't see stone: Foggy • Swinging stone: Windy • Jumpy stone: Earthquake • Stone gone: Tornado

Tonight's forecast: dark. Continued mostly dark tonight, turning to widely scattered light in the morning.

When dark December glooms the day, And takes our autumn joys away; When short and scant the sun-beam throws Upon the weary waste of snows...

The weather today is increasing concern followed by full-blown dread.

If Candlemas Day be fair and bright, Winter will have another fight; But if Candlemas Day be clouds and rain, Winter is gone, and will not come again.

Yesterday was "ground-hog's day" in many parts of the United States, and Candlemas day in many other parts of the world. From time immemorial, it has been a critical day in the affairs of the weather. The character of the second of February is really of much more importance than whether the first of March comes in like a lion or a lamb. The simplest form of the adage is:— If Candlemas day be bright and clear, There'll be two winters in that year.

To shorten winter, borrow some money due in spring.

This place changes its weather more often than I change my shirt.

If only I could get down to Sidcup! I've been waiting for the weather to break. He's got my papers, this man I left them with, it's got it all down there, I could prove everything.

I am an optimist, but I am an optimist who carries a raincoat.

Ik denk dat hij het oog van de cycloon wilde zijn. Rondom wordt alles verwoest door orkanen, maar in het oog is het schitterend weer met een blauwe hemel.

She was always threatening to move to be nearer to Rosie and the boys, but Wisconsin was- obviously, nonnegotiably, self-evidently-too cold. So she stayed in Pheonix and held the weather to her heart as a talisman, clutched to her breast against all counteroffers. But she came up for the summers. Pheonix's weather need not be clutched to the breast for June through September.

It was as if those school years bred a nostalgia so deep into the cells that the body woke to it each fall as naturally as the squirrels in the park began their frenzied harvest, never mind the weather was still fine, the sun still gracing them all.

With the thermometer at 30 below zero and the wind behind him, a man walking on Main Street in Winnipeg knows which side of him is which.

London -- a place you go to get bronchitis.

Today was a very cold and bitter day, as cold and bitter as a cup of hot chocolate, if the cup of hot chocolate had vinegar added to it and were placed in a refrigerator for several hours.

If I were making up a story, I would have it gray and miserable outside, but it was sunny and miserable instead

If I were making up a story, I would have it gray and miserable outside, but it was sunny and miserable instead, glaringly bright and bitterly cold, as if the sky could not decide if it was in a good mood or would spend all day growling. I didn't mind this kind of weather, weather that cannot make up its mind, because I am often the same way, or at least I think I am. I don't know.

Seeing Blackpool on a dull winter's day rather spoilt my image of what seaside places were like. (From LONE WOLF, p.60)