🌧️Happy St Swithins Day🌧️

Mary_Scope

St. Swithin Day falls every year on the 15th of July and is famous about it's strange weather related folklore.

Swithin was Bishop of Winchester from around 852 – 862 AD. Before he died, he asked to be buried in the churchyard of Winchester where drops of rain would fall onto his grave. After his remains were moved inside the cathedral on 15th July 971 AD, a huge storm followed. 

Legend has it that if it rains on St. Swithin’s Day then it will rain for the next forty days. If not, then forty days of ‘fair’ (good) weather will come.

Here is the poem…

“St. Swithin’s Day, if it does rain,

Full forty days, it will remain.

St. Swithin’s Day, if it be fair,

For forty days, t ‘will rain no more."

It's raining here in Wales on and off today and I even got caught in it during my lunch break😅

Have you had rain where you live yet? Or are you still enjoying the sun?

Chris75_

Let's hope St Swithin's influence takes a back seat here. Forty days of rain? No thanks!

Albus_Scope

Guess I'd best get my raincoat out of the attic again then. 😆