One of the many New Years Day weather folklore’s is “the onion calendar”.
As Donna Eszlinger explains in the podcast above, just before midnight on New Years Eve, you cut a large onion in half and separate the layers (while also removing the film between layers) and place a tsp. of salt in each “onion bowl”.
The first half is laid out with the first 6 layers, representing January to July. And, the second half is laid out with the other potion of those 6 layers representing August to December.
When you wake up in the morning, some of the salt has dissolved and created “moisture”, while other “bowls” look dry with the salt still standing in them. That represents the moisture levels for each month.
Here is the 2020 onion calendar:
January… not much moisture
February… a little more
March, April, May, June… the bulk of the year’s moisture will be during these months
July, August… look pretty dry
September… not much moisture
October, November… more moisture (maybe in the form of snow?)
December… not much moisture
In the podcast above, Donna explains how last year’s calendar didn’t disappoint!
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