Weatherwatch: will St Martin’s Day geese predict a white Christmas?

<p>According to folklore, the weather on St Martin’s Day is a glimpse of the winter ahead and geese are said to sense it first</p><p>St Martin’s Day, 11 November, is associated with feasting and the beginning of preparations for winter. Like St Swithin’s Day, Martinmas was believed to indicate the weather ahead.</p><p>Saint Martin, who is understood to have lived in <a href="https://rootsofeurope.ku.dk/english/etymology-of-the-month/evening-of-st.-martin">fourth-century France</a>, was associated with geese, having supposedly hidden in a goose pen to avoid being made bishop, only to be given away by their honking. Weather predictions from his day tend to have a flavour of goose.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/news/2025/nov/06/weatherwatch-will-st-martins-day-geese-predict-a-white-christmas">Continue reading...</a>