Susan, we have a little gauge that shows the temp and humidity but I try not to look at it while I am out. If I see it I do feel hotter, lol
When we were kids we had a novelty weather rock, it said if it's wet, its raining, dry it's not, so on
I don't know about the weather stick, lol
Never heard of it but would be fun to see if it does work, lol

My hair. It will tell you EXACTLY what the weather is. My mom used to call it my curl barometer. I don't need a stick! I got curls! LOL!PJ

Around here I think someone would get hurt by it!

Here is a link that might be useful: weather stick

Being a native Texan growing up in the 50's and 60's we had no A/C just a water cooler / swap cooler. We knew when it was humidity because you felt wet all the time. I remember taking a bath in the evening's, it felt so good not to be hot and wet but the minute you got out of the tub you had that wet feeling coming on again.
BTW, you can put a little rice in your salt to keep it from collecting moisture.
Thank goodness for A/C I think I'd just die if we had to suffer the heat like we did back in the old days LOL.

There's lots of things that work, that are simple solutions to things. There are also a lot of people selling worthless stuff.

The best indicator of weather, is barometric pressure, and the direction it is moving in, at any given time. While some of the fancy/dancy ones are expensive, the cost is mostly in the appearance items....case/dial/etc....so if you need something inexpensive, just get a movement and make your own appearance items.

Of course, in Texas, change is usually emminent, except for the July-October period.

I have a weather stick. One of my e friends sent it to me. It is nailed up by my back door. I am surprised that after two years, it is still intact, and seems to work. :))

Wow weather folklore sites are entertaining! Some cute things I found:

Some advice for gardeners: put camel manure on your garden and you'll only need to water it twice a month.
Put on kangaroo manure and your garden will go ahead in leaps and bounds. =D

The chirp of crickets conjures up images of warm summer nights. According to Mark Wysocki, a meteorologist at Cornell University, you can determine exactly how warm it is by just listening to those chirps.
"The number of chirps that a cricket would make in a fourteen second period, if you count that number of chirps and you add a number forty to that, you should come up with a temperature to within one degree Fahrenheit. Now a number of studies have been done to demonstrate that this is quite accurate." I can afford crickets! hehe

Read about that rock Jolana, if it's gone it means tornado, lol.

PJ please let me know when your having a badhair day so I can plan accordingly. =P

If I post a pic looking like I've been struck by lighting you'll know! LOL! PJ

Like this?

LOL Funny Jolana

I have a barometer. If it falls we evacuate.
I have a thermometer. Never look at it. Is there really a difference between 99 and 100?
Have a doohickey that measures humidity. If I get shocked touching something metal I call everyone and yell "Theres static electricity!" If they haven't called me already.
Have a wind gauge, the dutchmans pipe vine ate it.
Have a dog water bowl. If it freezes it's cold, and I call everyone I know, if they haven't called me, to say we have ice!
We are easily amused on the coast!
Tally HO!

Melva,naw, you can see her eyes...she's gotta look like a sheep dog! It goes berzerk!
Tally you're funny!LOL PJ

PJ, I looked everywhere for the bushy mop head frizzy hair smiley but couldn't find one. (for free anyway)

So sorry.

My hair does the same thing.

LOL!!! Sally has really curly hair too. It looks totally cute on her! PJ

Me too on the curly hair thing!..I have always fretted on getting my hair cut...its thin and extremely curly..and the stylist have no clue what Im talking about because they have this thick straight perfect hair,,,and they ALWAYS cut mine way tooo short...
Now..zap to my daughter, she HAS now been a licensed stylist for over 2 years...the first time I let her cut my hair off she listened!!...Now zap to 3 days ago...I let her cut my hair off again.....SHE DIDNT LISTEN!!!...and again...I have hair short enough IF I DONT blow dry it..it will be a very frizzy..very curly...very scary...to my head fro....
Why is it the experienced ones NEVER LISTEN!!! THINK they know everything???..LOL..she cut at least 8" off my lenght!! ACK!!!
HATE humid hot days..at least with VERY short hair I do...sighhh...
Now you can REALLY tell when its going to rain..LOL
Dena

Yep! Gotta cut it at least 8" longer than you'd think on my head(except bangs that I straighten) My hair gets a poof on top and on the sides(think Charlie browns sister! LOL!) It's AWFUL cut wrong!! My lady now has very thick curly hair so she kind of has an idea. I have fine,med thick,med curl dark blonde hair. No dye etc... or it will literally burn out! EEEKKK! One time a stylist was trying to sell perms. She offered to perm my hair to "give it bounce". I laughed my head off. I looked at her and said "gets any bouncier it's gonna launch!" You never know with hair dressers! PJ

I quit getting haircuts. My hair isn't curly but I have a couple of cowlicks. They would always give me bangs and the one in front would stick straight up. Then they always told me things like "now when you use your curling iron....your hot rollers..." like I own these things? Or would get near my head with something that could burst into flames???
Tally HO!

LOL! It reminds me of the time my otherwise fairly goofy ex MIL informed me that even owning a clothes iron was a sure fire way to,"burn your house to the ground" and that she wouldn't dream of owning one. Maybe she was craftier than I thought? PJ

pj - I think a lot of us have the hair thing going on. I know when it was raining last week, I couldn't keep my hair straight. Well, it started out straight when I used my blow dryer, but all I had to do was walk outside and POOF! I am due for a hair cut since it hasn't been cut since February. Maybe a different style will help or just using a different product on my hair . . . I know that styling mousse does not keep the style and I hate using hairspray so don't even own a can of the stuff.

denisew, you want my rotten opinion? :^) KEEP DREAMING!!! LOL! There aint a product to tame this stuff!!!LOL! A haircut does seem to help tho.PJ

Back to the stick thing now, . . .HA!

Anyway, I don't have a weather stick, but I have a rain stick that I got in Honduras about 15 years ago. The summer of '96, we went 5 1/2 months without a drop of rain here on Copano Bay. Along about mid-September I got "funny" and did a rain dance with my rain stick. A few days later we got Tropical Storm Frances which took our pier out. My DH no longer lets me touch that stick. It sure seemed to work back then, and with a new pier, he doesn't want to take anymore changes. HA!

Linda, I would pay money for pics of that one, LOL
Come do a dance here, okay? LOL