It is perhaps a little late to refer to St.
Valentine's Day. but I was interested to have a bit of weather lore concerning this day in a letter from a lady who lives in Manchester. I have always wondered about the rain that follows St. Swithin's Day and now I think the weather on St. Valentine's Day may have some significance. My correspondent writes: 'Some years ago I was living in a small village near Leamington. It was St. Valentine's Day and had been snowing hard from the previous day when an old man of over eighty years said to me, "It will snow now for a month or maybe six weeks"—and it certainly did, culminating with a very heavy fall on March 26 when our village was completely cut off for three days. Two babies were born during that time. Neither doctor nor nurse could attend the mothers. Both babies lived and were strong. That was in 1916. On St. Valentine's Day this year it certainly snowed and today (March 8) after more than a month it is still snowing ! The old man assured me that his forecast was never wrong.'
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