Farmers' Almanac Predicts '2-Faced' Winter

[Ghost in the Machine]

Farmers' Almanac Predicts '2-Faced' Winter
Published: 8/27/07, 12:45 AM EDT
By JERRY HARKAVY

LEWISTON, Maine (AP) - Keep your boots, long johns and snow shovels handy this winter if you live in the East, the Farmers' Almanac's forecast suggests. Residents of the West, however, can look forward to a milder winter this time around.

"Mother Nature is going to be sort of two-faced," almanac editor Peter Geiger said.

The almanac's 2008 edition, which goes on sale Tuesday, foresees plenty of snow across the Northeast, temperatures averaging as much as 3 degrees below normal along most of the Atlantic Coast, and four major frosts as far south as Florida. The Great Lakes region will also take a pounding.

The outlook is tamer for the Great Plains, the Rocky Mountains, the desert Southwest and the Pacific Coast, but Geiger said snow in Colorado will be more than adequate for skiing.

Other predictions include a cool, wet spring in many places, active tornado and hurricane seasons and a warmer-than-normal summer in much of the country.

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[bananas]

1. "not to be confused with the New Hampshire-based Old Farmer's Almanac founded 26 years earlier"

The Old Farmer's Almanac is what most people think of,
not this Johnny-come-lately!

[Ghost in the Machine]

3. Johnny come lately... LOL!!

"The 191-year-old almanac's winter forecast is at odds with the federal government's outlook, which is based largely on statistical trends. For the coming winter, those trends point to above normal temperatures in the East and the Southwest, with drier than average weather along the southern tier of states and up the East Coast into Virginia.

The almanac, not to be confused with the New Hampshire-based Old Farmer's Almanac founded 26 years earlier, claims a circulation of about 5 million. Most are sold to businesses that give them away as promotions.

[dipsydoodle]

2. So in a nutshell

it looks very much like America will have weather.

[Ghost in the Machine]

4. You got it! :-)

That's what I tell everyone when they ask me what the weather is supposed to be like. I say "we're gonna have some"...

In their defense, my family knew I watched the weather channel religiously for years because of my work as a commercial roofer and iron worker... since i got hurt 4 years ago though, I don't even look anymore, as it doesn't affect my daily life anymore..

[dipsydoodle]

6. Broadly speaking when it comes to rain

it's just a matter of whether it will or whether it won't.......lol.

[Colorado Progressive]

8. Dammit we had weather last year! Protest! Protest!

Next thing you know the days will get shorter too!

[ThomWV]

5. What's their prediction for the PowerBall number for next Saturday?

[soothsayer]

7. who cares, as it will only be a few mill