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Weather World Weather Folklore - Provides weather folklore sayings.
Stalking The Wild - Weather By The Signs - Informational article on forecasting based on nature's signs by Darryl Patton. Features information on using astronomy, animals, plants, clouds, and the atmosphere to predict the weather.
Weather Folktales - Some common lines of weather lore as well as related links.
Weather Folklore for Wiz Kids - Traditional weather predicitions in rhyme.
Winter Weatherlore and Folklore - Observations of the environment and the effects weather changes have on insects, animals, and humans.
Weather Folklore - Sayings and lore collected as part of the Teenagers Enthusiastic about Providing Environmental Education project.
Project Atmosphere Australia - Provides activities, resources, and communications facilities for teachers and students.

Wikipedia Articles

Weather stick - Also known as a Maine weather stick , the weather stick is a balsam fir rod, generally about 40cm (16") long which when mounted outside twists upward with the onset of good weather and downward as inclement weather approaches. These sticks were first used by the aboriginals of the American northeast and the Canadian east and southeast, ...
Surface weather analysis - A surface weather analysis is a special type of weather map which provides a view of weather elements over a geographical area at a specified time based on information from ground-based weather stations.Air Apparent: How Meteorologists Learned to Map, Predict, and Dramatize Weather.
National Weather Service Duties Act of 2005 - The National Weather Service Duties Act of 2005 was a legislative proposal forwarded in April of 2005 by now former United States Senator Rick Santorum (R-PA) to curtail government competition with commercial weather services from the National Weather Service. Though the wording of the bill was generally considered unclear, the general consensus among observers was that its effect would be to eliminate public dissemination of National Weather Service data and forecasts except in case of severe weather alerts.
Pitsford Hall weather station - Pitsford Hall weather station is an independent climatological station maintained by Northamptonshire Grammar School in the village of Pitsford, Northamptonshire. The station was established in 1998 and maintains a daily weather record using traditional weather instruments as well as a fully automated online automatic weather station.
Association of American Weather Observers - The Association of American Weather Observers is a group of amateur weather observers from around the United States. Their aim is to educate the public on weather awareness and to simply share stories among themselves on recent extreme weather that they viewed at their location.