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Member Since: November 2008 Posts: 5,488 Send Message	Elizabethofseasons	Report	15 Jul 2019 19:24
	Dear All Hello According to folklore if it rains at all today, it will mean rain for the next 40 days. St Swithin's is the day, but St Swithun was the man - a prominent character in 9th Century Wessex, born in or around the year 800 in Winchester. A cleric and adviser to King Aethelwulf by the time he was 40, and in his later years a mentor to the young Alfred, history does not record whether Swithun had much aptitude for weather forecasting. But it's the weather with which he is chiefly associated these days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- There could be some truth in the legend: Weather often locks into a pattern in high summer, only changing when autumnal influences begin to appear in late August --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take gentle care Best wishes Elizabeth, EOS xx