All these bee sayings are from observations, and the beekeeper is always a good weather prophet. They are extremely accurate. Count their chirps faster for fourteen seconds, then add forty,and you have the temperature of wherever the cricket is. When trees grow, their leaves fall into a pattern according to the prevailing wind. The instability of pre-storm pressures and humidity keeps smoke from chimneys or bonfires from rising quickly, finally to curl downward in the face of a storm wind.
Squirrels just do the best they can, and some years have better nut seasons than others.
Yet, the old-timers still observe the activities of the squirrels as a sign of winter weather.