In message , abraham
writes
How do you know I asked and he replied that
as he has been making / repairing shoes for 66 years he can tell by the
changes in the leather that he works with.


Interesting. One wonders where the animal that produced the hide that
made the leather was raised.

The trade in leather takes the largest proportion of its hides from
South America, Australia etc, to places such as China or the Indian sub
continent for tanning, and then exports them into many places, like the
UK.

Perhaps we are about to see Brazil get a foul winter?

Really though, unless the leather is of local origin it can have no
relation whatsoever to the weather, past, present, or future, in your
area.
--
Murray McGregor