#MEwx Weather Proverb about Geese

If you need to sound like one of those weather-wise, folksy people (best accomplished while wearing a plaid shirt, jeans and some dirty LL Bean boots) you need to know some folksy sounding weather proverbs. I’ll be posting some for the next week or so, so stay tuned.

BTW, you need to polish up on “how to sound like a folksy old-timer” on your own. You’ll need to know how to do that really good for telling Halloween tales to the kids at the end of this month.

 

“Goose honks high in a flock, fair weather.” Proverb.

This proverb has nothing to do with the pitch of a goose’s honk, but rather the altitude of its flight. If the goose “honks high” — or is flying at high altitude, it’s an indication of high barometric pressure, and therefore good weather. If it’s flying lower in the sky, barometric pressure is low, and poor weather is foretold. This is because geese are incredibly adept at flying with optimum air density. When air pressure is high, that optimum level is high in the sky, and the reverse is true for low pressure.

So, if geese are flying their V formations high up, get that picnic ready.