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Many people check the weather forecast on TV or smartphone apps before heading to school, work, or going out to have fun.
But when you’re out and can’t check the forecast and find yourself wondering, “What will the weather do from here?”, how do you predict it?
In this article, we’ll introduce weather-related proverbs that have long been loved in Japan—in a quiz format!
We’ve gathered various bits from different angles: tidbits that might actually help with real forecasts and expressions that use the sky’s appearance as a metaphor for things.
Give it a try!
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Proverbs (1–10) that use the sky or climate as metaphors
A presence that becomes a helping hand when you find yourself in a painful situation or when difficulties befall you.
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rain after a long drought
It comes from the rain that falls when a drought has gone on and the crops in the fields are about to be ruined. Some of you might know it from Demon Slayer (Kimetsu no Yaiba).
No matter how long a painful situation lasts, it will eventually come to an end.
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Heat and cold last only until the equinox.
It refers to how the summer heat subsides around the autumn equinox and how the winter cold eases around the spring equinox. Gritting your teeth and bearing it is one way to go.
Something you thought was a bad event later leading to a good outcome.
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After the rain, the ground hardens.
It’s said that when rainwater soaks in, the ground firms up. The phrase is also used metaphorically to describe the end of a quarrel between a married couple.
Even though it helped you, you immediately forget its existence as soon as the unpleasant thing passes.
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When the rain stops, you forget your hat.
You head out with an umbrella because it’s raining, but then it clears up so you walk without using it, and—uh oh—you’ve left the umbrella somewhere... That’s a classic, right?
A proverb that conveys fear by citing examples of terrifying things in this world.
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Earthquakes, thunder, fires, and fathers.
There are records showing that children were humming it in the 1830s. It has a nice rhythm when you say it aloud.
Proverbs that predict the actual weather (1–10)
It clears up when 〇 gets off.
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When there is frost, it will be clear.
On clear winter nights, radiative cooling chills the ground, so frost forms in the early morning. In other words, that happens during clear periods when a winter high-pressure system is in place.
It doesn’t rain in 〇〇 for even a day.
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There wasn't an evening shower all day.
The evening shower isn’t a rain that keeps falling forever. By extension, it can be taken to mean that every bad event will come to an end.