Stalker spotted this little nugget of predictive weather lore just recently in the letters page of a national paper.
The first tree to leaf in spring foretells the wetness of the coming summer. “Oak before ash we’re in for a splash, ash before oak we’re in for a soak.”
The county Cork letter writer said that this year it’s the oak first. So get ready for the staycation they reckoned.
Stalker wondered if anyone was going to have much intention of heading abroad this summer.
