A day of exceptionally sunny and calm weather, popularly supposed to be a presage of a coming storm. Also fig.
1655. H. L’Estrange, Chas. I. (1655), 160. The King had intentions of being present at the General Assembly; but this lucid interval proved but a weather-breeder.
1659. J. Arrowsmith, Chain Princ., 391. Look at a very fair day, as that which may prove a weather-breeder, and usher in storms.
1780. T. Smith, Jrnl. (1849), 281. A most delightful day; a weather breeder.
1828. Carr, Craven Gloss., s.v., A cloudless sky, after a succession of rainy weather, denotes rain, and is said to be a weather-breder.
1879. J. Burroughs, Locusts & Wild Honey, 98–9. Certain days he calls ‘weather breeders,’ and they are usually the finest days in the calendar—all sun and sky.
1903. Daily Chron., 10 Feb., 5/2. Isolated fine days in February are known in Surrey as ‘weather-breeders.’
So Weather-breeding a.
1899. R. M. Gilchrist, Nicholas, 23. The last se’nnight of March had been dull and weather-breeding.
