We have the usual hi-tech weather guides. We have an electronic temperature sensor and I check the Wunderground (https://www.wunderground.com) 10-day forecast every day.
As always with hi-tech, it makes us dependent on them. We grow up "not needing" to know how to read the weather signs for ourselves. The neighbourhood squirrels are smarter than me about, well, a lot of things, weather being one of them :=)
I wanted to learn about weather myself and low-tech is the way to knowledge. More below

I figured there are three ways to learn about local weather:

• general weather signs
• local weather signs
• low-tech instruments

1. Learn some general weather signs
From the Farmers Almanac:
I found an article in the FA a ways back, but I've lost the reference. Let me know whether you have similar weather folklore :=)
http://farmersalmanac.com/
http://farmersalmanac.com/almanacs/2016-canadian-almanac/
The Old Farmers Almanac https://www.almanac.com/

Dew on the grass
According to weather lore:

When the dew is on the grass

Rain will never come to pass.
When grass is dry at morning light,
Look for rain before the night.

Why?
If dew has time to form on the ground overnight, it means the night was clear without any clouds.
Clear skies allow the earth to cool, and water to condense in the form of dew (or frost at cooler times of the year).
If the night is cloudy, the clouds act as a heat barrier keeping the heat in and not allowing dew to form. This saying assumes that if the night skies are clear, the day following will also be cloud-free.

Sunrise and sunset colours
The saying is:

Red sky at morning,
sailors take warning.
Red sky at night,
sailors’ delight.

Why?
Weather systems usually move from west to east.
A reddish evening sky can be caused by sunlight shining through dry dust particles in the western sky.
This dry sky should be over your head in the morning.
If the morning is gray in the east, it means the clouds have already passed you.
Conversely, if the evening is gray, it means the clouds have not yet reached you. Rain may be on its way.

Grazing animal’s tails
According to lore:

Tails pointing west,
Weather’s at its best.
Tails pointing east,
Weather is least.

Why?
Cows and horses prefer not to have the wind blowing in their faces, so they usually stand with their backs to the wind.
Since westerly winds typically mean arriving or continuing fair weather and easterly winds usually indicate arriving or continuing unsettled weather, a tail is as good a way as any of knowing what the weather will be up to for the next few hours.

Summer fog means fair weather is on its way
Here’s the rhyme:

Summer fog for fair,
A winter fog for rain.
A fact most everywhere,
In valley or on plain.

Why?
Fog is made up of condensed water droplets, which are the result of the air being cooled to the point where it can no longer hold water vapors.
In the summer, the air can only cool enough if the night sky is clear enough that the heat can be radiated into space.
If the night is cloudy, the clouds act as a blanket to keep it in. If you see a fog during the summer, it usually means that the next day will be clear.

Jumping fish
This lore has to do with trout. The saying goes:

Trout jump high,
when a rain is nigh.

Why?
The belief behind this lore is that when air pressure lowers, gasses created by decaying plant matter, which resides on the bottom of the lake or body of water, begin to release.
This, in turn, causes the tiny microorganisms that live in these plants to be released into the water, creating a feeding frenzy among the fish.
This frenzy sometimes causes the little fish and big fish to start jumping around.

Restless birds
The saying:

If the rooster crows on going to bed,
You may rise with a watery head.

Why?
Many people believe that animals, especially birds, can sense when there’s a decrease in air pressure. People have observed that an approaching storm makes birds restless.
And when a rooster can’t rest, he tends to crow more.

Deciduous leaves turn over

Here in Colorado, when the Oak tree’s leaves fold over backwards, it always is a sign of precipitation.
The Oak is the first to drop its leaved in fall when winter truly begins, and the last to leaf out in Spring.
That’s when we plant.
The leaves of deciduous trees, like maples and poplars, do often to turn upward before heavy rain.
The leaves are actually reacting to the sudden increase in humidity that usually precedes a storm.
Leaves with soft stems can become limp in response to abrupt changes in humidity, allowing the wind to flip them over.

Ring around the moon
A ring around the moon indicates rain coming. It has worked for me for years, even when the weather report does not say rain.
The further out the ring goes, the longer the days away before the rain comes.
A real tight ring means rain in 24hrs or less.

2. Learn local weather signs
We've lived here in our village for five years now and we have a pretty good idea of where and how the weather comes from in the different seasons.
BTW, is the wind stronger lately where you live too? It seems like every day is a blustery days nowadays.
I am the laundry guy in our home. I dry the laundry on portable racks on the deck - for donkey years now.
These past coupla years, I'm having a dickens of a time with wind. I like the portable racks over a fixed line because when the weather turns bad I just carry the rack and laundry inside to dry in the living room. It's disheartening to see the laundry go flying!

I'd love to hear what some of your local weather signs are.

3. Acquire some low-tech weather gizmos
Low-tech means gadgets that don't need fkn batteries :=)

Weather station
I got ours on Kijiji and I love the thing :=)

It has a
Barometer
Thermometer
Humidex

Weathervane
I want one!

Weather radio
Here's ours


Specs:

• Eton Solar/Crank AM/FM/Weather
• American Red Cross MICROLINKFR170 emergency preparedness weather radio
• AM (520-1710 KHz) & FM (87-108MHz)
• NOAA weatherband – all 7 channels
• Built-in white LED light source
• Powered by solar panel, dynamo crank, or DC input (mini-USB), all of which charges the internal Ni-MH battery
• USB dump charge: instantly charges your USB device after cranking, to get power when you need it most (you need a USB cable - not included)
• 3.5 mm headphone output

What else? Please let me know what all I've forgotten or not thought of yet.

All comments welcome.
Peace be with us, if we learn nature's weather ways,
gerrit