Weather sayings
What does “April showers bring May flowers” mean?
A bit of misery now pays off later: spring rain is what makes the flowers.
“Wet again. April showers bring May flowers, apparently.”
Get roasted by your own forecastFree, no account, and you pick how rude I get.
Where it comes from
Thomas Tusser, the 16th-century farming poet, wrote “Sweet April showers / Do spring May flowers” in his verses on the farming year.
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Is it true?
Partly. Spring rain helps, but warmth and longer days do most of the work, and a dry April does not cancel May.
What I think of “April showers bring May flowers”
April showers, May flowers, and June pollen, which nobody puts on a poster.
April showers: a month of rain sold as an investment.
March showers, meanwhile, produce nothing but more March.
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Sources: Thomas Tusser’s 16th-century farming verses (A Hundreth Good Pointes of Husbandrie, later Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry).