A couple Arctic norwegian sayings

[FishyFolk]

If the snow crust can carry a grown man at mid summers eve, spring will be late...

If we get a couple of good summers, this snow will be gone.

[David_JAFO]

hello,
Aye.. well today we're sitting at minus -2C the temperature is dropping again tonight, ice particles have been falling most of the day when it's dry but bitterly cold. Last week it was freezing rain. I was out yesterday evening practising fire lighting skills in the cold using a nodule of Jasper I was given by a BCUSA forum member in a trade of agates. Jasper threw off a good shower of orange sparks with a nice ember in no time using both char cloth & amadou. I think again we shall have a few days of sunshine followed by the monsoon warm weather but raining. Scottish Summer is the best day of the year.
Regards
David

[Whistle]

Nice one Rune !!!

where I live on Romney Marsh at the edge of Dungeness we have a similar saying ...

If you can see Dungeness power station it means it's gonna rain ...

If you can't see Dungeness power station it already is !!! ...

Cheers Whistle

[BJ]

I found this was a good way to forecast the weather.
I just need to find the right stone

[rik_uk3]

In Wales

"If you can't see across the Valley, its raining; if you can see across the Valley...its about to rain"

[FishyFolk]

Here is one that is almost impossible to understand for southerners, and twice as impossible to translate.

In my dialect it goes like this "Vi står han a" Directly translates to "We stand him off". It can be applied to anything, but it reffers to rough conditions.
If we have a bad summer, we say (with a certain ammount of pride) "vi står han a", we will stand against "him", we will stay, things will be better (next year), Weather is often reffered to as "him or "he".

[Ehecatl]

So Rune, does the Norwegian language apply gender to certain words like the French language, or is the weather a special case?

[FishyFolk]

So Rune, does the Norwegian language apply gender to certain words like the French language, or is the weather a special case?

I am totally retarded when it comes to grammar, so cant give a good answer to that. Also the example above is from the northern dialect that I speak. But Yes
we often refer to weather with a gender...
We will for example say that "he is raining hard today", but in the south they will say "it is raining hard today"

Another one is "He comes with it now", if the wether suddenly turns foir the worse.

[shepherd]

I found this was a good way to forecast the weather.
I just need to find the right stone

lol love this ...

[Greenbear]

I found this was a good way to forecast the weather.
I just need to find the right stone

I laugh out loud every time I see this ....