Spiders and the Weather

Hone gives the country lore of spiders as weather prophets. If rain or wind was coming, spiders were said to make the threads that held up the whole web unusually short, and if they spun them long the weather would stay fine for ten or twelve days at least. Idle spiders meant rain, but spiders busy during rain showed it would soon pass and give way to settled weather. Spiders altered their webs once a day, and if they did so between six and seven in the evening a clear, pleasant night was on the way.