The weather is generally very difficult to predict, and yet human’s have gotten remarkably good at it over the past several decades. Sources like the National Weather Service, local meteorologists, and smartphone apps tend to provide accurate 5 day forecasts. Even NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center can provide a look at general weather trends months ahead of time. Yet people are always looking for accurate and detailed forecasts much further out than scientifically feasible. For that, they usually turn toward folklore.
Weather enthusiasts, farmers, and homesteaders have relied on less-than-scientific factors to determine what the weather will look like in the coming months for hundreds of years. Sources like the Old Farmers’ Almanac and the Farmers’ Almanac provide annual weather predictions for farmers and gardeners to help decide what to plant and when to plant it.
Humans have relied on plants, insects, birds, and plenty of other signs in nature to determine what the future weather will look like as well. Some of those signs are more rooted in science while some are almost completely folklore. People have even looked toward the current weather for signs of what’s to come. Here are 6 ways the current weather can help predict a cold and snowy winter according to the Farmers’ Almanac.
6 Meteorological Signs That Predict A Cold and Snowy Winter According to Farmers’ Almanac
- An unusually warm first week in August signals a snowy and long winter ahead.
- The first snowfall of the season will come six weeks after September’s last thunderstorm.
- For every day of fog in August, a day of snowfall will come in the following winter.
- If the season’s first snowfall lands on unfrozen ground, the Farmers’ Almanac suggests expecting a mild winter.
- Thunder in the winter Is followed by snow seven days later.
- The of the month of the first snowstorm marks the number of storms you can expect throughout the following winter.
