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Based on folk sayings 'Cold winter-cold spring,' 'Cold winter-hot summer,' and 'Hot summer-cold winter' people were for centuries trying to express a long-term weather prediction. In this paper the scientific verification of folk sayings was performed primarily by analysis of the seasonal air temperatures. To include the largest possible number of cases and to perform a detailed processing of data, a classification of seasons was made according to several standards-meteorological-statistical, extreme and mean seasonal temperatures. Conceivably, the sayings are true in many cases, but that it does not mean that every hot summer will be followed by a cold winter, or that a cold winter will be followed by a cold spring and/or cold summer.