Weather sayings
What does “rain before seven, fine by eleven” mean?
Early morning rain tends to clear up by late morning.
“Raining now, but rain before seven, fine by eleven.”
Get roasted by your own forecastFree, no account, and you pick how rude I get.
Where it comes from
Old English weather lore.
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Is it true?
Sometimes. A band of rain on a weather front often passes in a few hours, so early rain can clear by late morning. Showers and slow-moving systems ignore it completely.
What I think of “rain before seven, fine by eleven”
Rain before seven, fine by eleven, wet again by lunch. They left that bit out.
Rain before seven: a forecast that rhymes, which is more than most manage.
Fine by eleven is the kind of promise the sky makes and forgets.
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Sources: Weather lore; standard meteorology on how fronts pass.