But people have been reading the signs for thousands of years - without the help of computers. The good folks at the Jordan Presbyterian Church in Owen County, have pooled their collective weather lore, and offer these words of wisdom to our readers. When the woolly worms are dark, or have a thick black stripe, it's going to be a hard winter. A ring around the moon means bad weather. The number of stars within the ring tell how many days away the bad weather will be.
Smoke going towards the ground foretells rain.
When an old sow has a mouth full of grass, it's either going to be bad weather, or a litter of newborn pigs is forthcoming. May. The first dream a person has under a new quilt will come true. It will be a bad winter if the cooked breast bone of a turkey is purple. If you hear an owl hoot during the day, it will rain within 24 hours. Red sky in morning, sailors take warning.