St. Swithin’s day if thou dost rain
For forty days it will remain;
St. Swithin’s day if thou be fair
For forty days ’twill rain nae mair
Judging from the colour of the sky behind the apples, we’re in for a long hot summer.
Instead they tell me today is San Buenaventura, a saint known for his “simplicity, humility and charity”. Since he seems unlikely to provide the rain needed for apple christening, perhaps it’s just as well we fixed the tap in the orchard at the weekend.
don't confuse the narrator 
In Spain we have the “cabañuelas” weather prediction, Apparently of jewish origin as cabañuela is one of the spanish words for tabernacle. It it based on the observation of the first 24 days of august and that determines the weather for the rest of the year.
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But you didn’t go on and tell me what the weather was going to be! (And you know how much we Brits love to talk about the weather.)
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