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  What it means

  “Fine weather on Saint Joseph’s Day means beauty in the fields.” If March 19th is sunny and clear, it foretells a good harvest season ahead.

  Vocabulary

  • pogoda — good weather, fine weather
  • uroda — beauty; here: abundance, good yield
  • w polu — in the field (locative)

  Grammar note

  'W polu' is the locative of 'pole' (field). 'Uroda' here carries the older sense of 'abundance' or 'good crop'.

  Cultural context

  St. Joseph's Day (March 19) was one of the most important weather-forecasting dates in the Polish folk calendar.

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