February comes to us full of superstition, romance, sowing seeds to harvest, and luck. Get out your calendar and start recording the daily weather to predict what future months will bring.
THE GROUNDHOG
It is between the time of eleven and one o’clock on February 2nd that the ground hog’s shadow is significant.
Eat turnips or early poke shoots on February second to prevent groundhogs from destroying your garden.
SNOW
The days that are cold in February with be warm in March, and the warm days in February will be the cold ones in March.
If it freezes on February twenty-second, there will be forty more freezes.
If the woodsmoke from a chimney stays close to the ground, snow is coming.
THUNDER
If it thunders in February, there will be snow in May.
If it thunders on a certain day in February, there will be frost on that day in May.
The number of times it thunders in February will be the number of days it will frost in May.
If it thunders on the last day of February, there will be frost on the last day of May.
PEAS
It is good luck to plant peas on the fourteenth of February. (Blue Grass)
It is good luck to plant peas on the twenty-second of February. (Central KY)
FEBRUARY GIRLS
A girl born in February will be humane, affectionate as a partner, and tender as a mother.
LOVE
“Hail! Hail! Lonely, lonesome turkey-buzzard.
Hail to the East, hail to the West,
Hail to the one that I love best.
Let me know by the flap of your wing
Whether he (she, they) loves me or not.”
The if bird flaps its wings, the lover is true.
If it does not, the lover is false.
Photo by Michelle Maani/Audubon Photography Awards
February Superstitions & Predictions
