Released today, the Old Farmer’s Almanac shares their predicted weather forecast for Winter 2016, and it’s not looking too pretty.
Well maybe it’ll look pretty, but might not feel too pretty.
The 2016 almanac predicts that the U.S. should prepare for extremely cold temperatures and lots of snow this winter.
The Old Farmer’s Almanac has been in use since 1792, and remains about 80% accurate year after year.
They are the one of the oldest and most popular reference guides in the U.S., and their secret forecasting formula is even locked in a black box in Dublin, New Hampshire.
The founder of the Almanac, Robert B. Thomas devised the formula and believes that the weather on Earth is influenced by sun sports which are magnetic storms on the surface of the sun.
“We employ three scientific disciplines to make our long-range predictions: solar science, the study of sunspots and other solar activity; climatology, the study of prevailing weather patterns; and meteorology, the study of the atmosphere. We predict weather trends and events by comparing solar patterns and historical weather conditions with current solar activity.”- The Old Farmer’s Almanac
And for winter 2016, the Almanac predicts below-normal temperatures for the Northeast, above-average snowfall for the South, less snowfall but below-normal temperatures for the Midwest, and the Pacific Northwest can expect their biggest snowfall in mid-December, early to mid-January and mid-to-late February.
I know this is the last thing anyone wants to hear when we are still mid-to-late August, but we have to be prepared.
Even if that means booking our winter vacation in advance…
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