Do Horses Know When the Weather’s About to Change? 🌧️🍂

There’s a quiet shift happening in the barn this month. Some horses are on edge. Some are dragging their hooves. A few seem fine one minute, then wide-eyed the next, especially when that cool breeze hits just right.

Ask any long-time horse person, and they’ll tell you:
Yes, horses know when the weather is changing. 🐴

And it’s not just a hunch.

Horses are incredibly intuitive. They pick up on things long before we do, from temperature drops and wind shifts to those eerie, pressure-heavy days before a storm rolls in.

🌬️ Cool mornings after muggy nights? That can send a young gelding trotting sideways down the aisle.
 

🌫️ Fog at sunrise? Expect every ear in the pasture to be on high alert.

🍃 A surprise gust of wind? Suddenly, the whole herd is trotting like they’ve got somewhere to be.

This isn’t a myth. It’s instinct, and it’s built into every fiber of your horse.

Changes in barometric pressure can bring on restlessness or even physical shifts in how they move. Some horses get anxious before storms. Others might feel stiff or sluggish, especially the older guys with creaky joints.

So if your horse is acting a little “off” this week with early fall weather sweeping through Pennsylvania and beyond, don’t assume they’re just being dramatic.

They might be listening to something you haven’t felt yet.

And when we learn to ride with that kind of awareness, instead of brushing it off, our horses feel it. 💛

And that’s when real trust starts to grow.