MARCH WEATHER
It will be here sooner than you think.
As March approaches it brings with it one of our most familiar weather proverbs, “In like a lion, out like a lamb,” but I wonder who made it up, where, when, and is it true?
I did some research and no one seems to know much about the origins of this particular proverb. I guess it is just one of the many old sayings that came from our oral past. All that’s known for sure is that it first came into our language through literature back in 1624 when it appeared in a popular play.
The weather proverbs we have inherited with our language are true in the sense that they are based on the real observations of real people who worked outdoors, possibly farmers who depended on the weather for their livelihoods.
Weather proverbs wouldn’t persist if they weren’t based on what generations of observers have repeated as true, but weather is variable, full of surprises and might even be changing. Maybe the best use of these old proverbs is to make us more aware of our own immediate weather.
If your observations confirm that this March comes in like a lion and went out like a lamb, chalk one up for the old proverb. If March does something else, don’t totally reject the saying because it might come true next year.
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