Plants, household animals, and wildlife are extremely sensitive to environmental changes. Plant and animal behaviour observations give a plethora of material for anticipating natural events. Gardeners must be aware of changes in natural phenomena to precisely estimate the sowing and planting of vegetables, as well as their protection from spring frosts. Gardeners must also know what the weather will be like this summer to determine the best sowing time and soil for each sort of produce.
Phenological measurements are critical in forecasting the weather. This is known as the phenological indicator approach in science. When the Bird cherry blossoms, for example, the cold returns. If it rains during the Bird cherry blooming season, it will also rain throughout the rye blooming season. The potato harvest will be good when the Norway spruce has a lot of cones. If a rowan branch cut at sowing season sinks in water, flax should be seeded; however, if the branch floats on the surface, the sown flax will not survive. Warm weather will arrive in a month when the spruce shoots begin to grow.
Frogs can also forecast the weather: in dry weather, they stay in water or in a shaded area, but in rainy weather, they jump across dry earth and roads towards the rain. Frogs croak long in the evening in excellent weather, quietly in rain, loudly in bright weather, and silently in chilly weather. The birds respond effectively to changes in the environment.
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