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Posted on 08/26/2013 5:45:05 AM PDT by citizen
The Farmers' Almanac is using words like "piercing cold," ''bitterly cold" and "biting cold" to describe the upcoming winter. And if its predictions are right, the first outdoor Super Bowl in years will be a messy "Storm Bowl."
The 197-year-old publication that hits newsstands Monday predicts a winter storm will hit the Northeast around the time the Super Bowl is played at MetLife Stadium in the Meadowlands in New Jersey. It also predicts a colder-than-normal winter for two-thirds of the country and heavy snowfall in the Midwest, Great Lakes and New England.
"We're using a very strong four-letter word to describe this winter, which is C-O-L-D. It's going to be very cold," said Sandi Duncan, managing editor.
Based on planetary positions, sunspots and lunar cycles, the almanac's secret formula is largely unchanged since founder David Young published the first almanac in 1818.
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Haven’t tried the lake effects of the north but, have camped with lake effects in Oklahoma.
But, on the positive side, the tomatoes are finally ripening and we can swim comfortably without turning on the pool heater.
It cools off again at night next week.
Up here, in Wisconsin, it is _already_ less than a month til the normal first frost. Much of July was hot up here.
When we have these sorts of cool summers, it typically heats up the end of August through the middle of September,light frost comes at the regular time (9/20-9/24) and then we have a warm 3 weeks until about October 15 or so. If we cover the garden when frost is predicted, things will continue to grow some for a couple more weeks.
This sort of late Spring, cool Summer has happened before.
Undoubtedly.
However, my 80yr old dad who farmed was shocked at the frost in May. That hasn’t happened in his lifetime. It broke a record from the late 1890’s.
I’d love to see the temps and first/last frost dates around here from the Dalton Minimum.
Where has he lived?
I am nearly 71 and have lived in Wisconsin since 1964. I can recall several years prior to and during the 1970s, with May frosts. They aren’t *hard*, but they can injure new starts.
We never plant before Memorial Day or the first week of June. Even if it is a warm Spring, we keep the starts potted in a greenhouse or hoop house and have a heating option available.
This year, the May frost was made worse by 2 weeks of rain. Anyone whose starts survived the frost, ended up with early blight. Our garden was too thick to drink, too thin to plow, so I just put everything in 10-gallon pots and gave away about 60 starts to people who had lost theirs to the rain.
We live in south Mississippi. I’ve never lost plants in MAY to frost before.
My dad has lived here his whole life.
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I used to live in Villa Rica, yes it’s hotter there.
I live in the edge of the mountains and it’s sure
a lot better here, although I wish i was even farther
north, say Blairsville or more but, I got tired
of looking. I wouldn’t have thought it was so hard
to find a place with a barn but in my price range
there was little to nothing. Found a place with a
three car garage so it will do.
I had to bing that to see what it meant. Lol
A south Mississippi late May frost sounds really late to me.
I heard there have been all kinds of record lows set this spring/summer. Some were record daytime lows. There was one of those set here last week.
I’m imagining a 3-car garage with baled hay stacked to the ceiling on the end wall, a hay feeding trough along the back wall and cow pies on the concrete floor. Lol
Hahaha, no cows, just my blacksmith shop.
Although one chicken came with the house,
somehow I now have 8 more...
The frost ‘bit’ some tomato seedlings I had sitting on my driveway waiting transplant. I considered myself lucky they weren’t already out in the garden where they’d have been killed outright.
I’m reconsidering that thought. They haven’t done squat this year. Next year, IF that happens again, I’m gonna dump them in the compost pile and start over.
Here’s the link.
http://iceagenow.info/2013/08/12360/
“ya may want to look up John Casey “Cold Sun” and read his prediction of the coming solar hibernation.”
I checked the book and come to the conclusion that he’s read my FR posts!
Well, if colder and wetter than normal winter is in store (summer certainly has been), I hope my weather leans more to the Virginia border (20 miles away to the north) because ice storms are a miserable mess. Snow is not destructive in and of itself unless it’s one of those odd stalled out “white hurricane” noreasters, thankfully rare.
Funny how the snow line does tend to follow the state line though, outside the mountains. There’s a big dip down the Blue Ridge to almost Asheville in actuality, though. That part of NC gets weather more on a par with New England.
I much prefer cold to hot, and I love snow sports. I have a reliable plow person, a sturdy shovel and my snowshoes are always on the back porch, ready to go. I look ADORABLE in my parka and Ugg boots, cashmere sweaters and Nature’s Makeup: bright pink cheeks from the cold.
Bring it! :)
Well they have a 50-50 chance of being right.
Ever since I can remember (which seems to be getting shorter even though I am getting older, heheh) farmers have relied on the Farmer’s Almanac for guidance on the coming year.
Here is another sunspot related link. The article is years old but deals with current and near future solar activity.
http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2006/10may_longrange/
The Sun’s Great Conveyor Belt has slowed to a record-low crawl, according to research by NASA solar physicist David Hathaway. “It’s off the bottom of the charts,” he says. “This has important repercussions for future solar activity.”
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