Frogs and Thunderstorms

By Kent R. Kroeger (July 8, 2019)

Growing up in America’s farm belt, weather proverbs were commonly heard and taken seriously. The one I always remember I first heard from my grandmother: “Frogs croaking on the lake, means an umbrella one must take.” Or something like that.

She didn’t live near a lake, so I’m not sure how useful that piece of folk wisdom was for her, but it stuck with me. And, as…