St. Swithun's Day

From an unlogged Swhack session:

• The weathergirl started off her segment talking about St. Swithin's Day...
• Weathergirl: "Today, in case you didn't know, is St. Swithin's Day! According to legend, if it rains today then the next forty days will be rainy, and if it's fair then they'll be fair."
• Weathergirl: "Of course, I wouldn't pay any attention to old wives' tales though!"
• [then she finishes the trivia section, and goes into her serious weathergirl voice; the screen comes up behind her with a summary of the weather]
• Weathergirl: "It's rained quite heavily today, and will continue to do so all over the weekend..."

Apparently, "St. Swithin (or more properly, Swithun) was a Saxon Bishop of Winchester"--About St. Swithin's Day, and "St. Swithun had been Prior of the monastery attached to the cathedral, before he was made Bishop of Winchester in AD 852. He was, say the chroniclers, a diligent builder of churches in places where there were none before and a repairer of those that had been destroyed or ruined."--Britannia Biographies. The Guardian published 10 facts about St. Swithin in 2002.