Weatherwatch: will St Martin's Day geese predict a white Christmas?

According to folklore, the weather on St Martin's Day is a glimpse of the winter ahead and geese are said to sense it firstSt Martin's Day, 11 November, is associated with feasting and the beginning of preparations for winter. Like St Swithin's Day, Martinmas was believed to indicate the weather ahead.Saint Martin, who is understood to have lived in fourth-century France, was associated with geese, having supposedly hidden in a goose pen to avoid being made bishop, only to be given away by their honking. Weather predictions from his day tend to have a flavour of goose. Continue reading...