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Sticks
15-July-2008, 10:01 AM
According to this guy (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swithun), it will rain for 40 days

Except this belief has never been born out by meterological records.

St Swithun's day

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chrissy
15-July-2008, 02:44 PM
As you know Sticks it always rains here, whether it St Swithun's day or not!
Just hope we have some good weather for a change.
Ivan Viehoff
15-July-2008, 03:07 PM
OP: It seems unlikely that it was Swithun himself who proposed it. For starters, he wouldn't have known that there would be St Swithun's day, or what day it would be, in his own lifetime. Also, since he lived at a time that the Julian calendar was used, there are pointless but amusing issues to be considered with regards to the calendar to be used for the purpose. The Wikipedia article you quote considers some more mundane objections, for example similar legends attached to several other saints with a variety of dates.

#2 What's "god weather"? Sounds like something to avoid.
Sticks
15-July-2008, 05:00 PM
I came across this link (http://www.supanet.com/lifestyle/lifestyle_galleries/gallery/1283/1/sm3), which details other items of Weather lore, some of which have scientific explanations as to how they work.
Gillianren
15-July-2008, 05:02 PM
It's odd--I grew up Catholic and never saw the "Swithun" spelling. Just "Swithin."
Tobin Dax
16-July-2008, 02:41 AM
#2 What's "god weather"? Sounds like something to avoid.
I suspect that 40 days of rain might qualify as that.
Whirlpool
16-July-2008, 06:07 AM
It's been raining since Sunday.
We have a typhoon named Helen.
For sure it will for the next couple of days , but not 40 days.

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