What do the Wooly Worms say?
I saw a totally orange woolly worm the other day...weird
I haven’t seen any wooly worms yet this year.
The wooly worms I keep seeing are all blond. Some years they’re solid black. But in all the years I’ve kept track, there hasn’t been a correlation between wooly worm colors and weather.
I have, however, noticed certain behavior patterns with squirrels, birds, and certain plants, that correspond to winter weather. Squirrels get very desperate before an unusually cold winter, that sort of thing.
My expectation, and take this with a grain of salt, is that this will be a damp winter, with mostly moderate cold days, and a sprinkling of severely ones. I’m not seeing the kinds of animal behavior that normally happen before a rough winter, and I’m not seeing the kinds of plant behaviors that happen before a drought.
(These predictions are for south-central Wisconsin only. I have no idea what other areas will be like.)