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LEWISTON, Maine – Americans, you might want to check on their sweaters and shovels — the Farmers’ Almanac is predicting a cold winter for many of you.
The venerable almanac’s 2010 edition, which goes on sale Tuesday, says numbing cold will predominate in the country’s midsection, from the Rocky Mountains in the West to the Appalachians in the East.
For most of Minnesota and Wisconsin, the almanac predicts “bitterly cold and dry” weather. In the Dakotas and the Red River Valley region of Minnesota, “very cold and snowy” weather is expected.
Managing Editor Sandi Duncan says it’s going to be an “ice cold sandwich.”
“We feel the middle part of the country’s really going to be cold — very, very cold, very, very frigid, with a lot of snow,” she said. “On the East and West coasts, it’s going to be a little milder. Not to say it’s going to be a mild short winter, but it’ll be milder compared to the middle of the country.”
Cap’n (#30),
Yep, just drove back to Dallas from Austin today. August 2009 was the warmest on record by 3 degrees, beating 2008. Hot and dry… We had a warm summer in Dallas, but had some decent moisture.
Now, having grown up in Minnesota. Whaddya mean a cold winter in Minnesota?!? No sh*t Sherlock.
We set a bunch of high temperature records in the Tampa Bay Area this summer.
I dunno, I think the PacNW is going to have a cold winter…the wood ants are already gone. (They come out in spring, and then, sometime in fall they go away…..can’t find a one.) Blackberries are ripe a full 2 weeks early. The Canadian Geese have already started to head South. The robins aren’t around (usually here for another few weeks). I really HATE to say it, but I am dreading an early winter….and a nasty one — even though last winter was suckie, and LONG.
My prediction is there’s a chance we’re all gonna freeze to death although we may also fry to a crisp and if neither happens it’ll be down the middle somewhere.
The climate models can’t predict weather one year out, because they don’t have the current weather to feed into it.
As we used to say in Louisiana, if you don’t like the weather wait a few minutes.