Posted on 09/01/2025 8:03:21 AM PDT by Morgana
From mild and dry winters in New England and California to cold, wet conditions in Florida, The Old Farmer's Almanac's latest forecast offers a state-by-state snapshot of what Americans can expect this winter.
Why It Matters
Published since 1792, The Old Farmer's Almanac claims to be the oldest continuously published periodical in the U.S.
The publication explains that its forecasts are developed using insights from three scientific disciplines: solar science, climatology, and meteorology. Solar science involves analyzing sunspots and other solar activity, while climatology focuses on weather patterns, and meteorology studies atmospheric conditions.
What To Know
Much of the country was expected to be mild and dry. New England, including Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut, could expect these conditions, according to The Old Farmer's Almanac.
Additional states with a mild and dry forecast included California, Alaska, Hawaii, the Dakotas, Iowa, Wisconsin, Michigan, Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas, and Louisiana.
The majority of Montana, Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, Missouri, New Jersey, Maryland, New York, and Delaware were also expected to be mild and dry.
Several states were forecast for a mild but wet winter. These included Idaho, Nevada, Utah, Colorado, as well as portions of Washington, Oregon, Wyoming, as well as the Texas and Oklahoma Panhandles.
States expected to see a cold and snowy winter included West Virginia, Ohio, North Carolina, and Virginia, while a mild and snowy winter was forecast for West Texas, New Mexico, and parts of Arizona
Meanwhile, The Old Farmer's Almanac issued a cold and dry forecast for parts of Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, and Georgia.
Florida was the only state forecast by the Almanac for a cold and wet winter.
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Colder than what?? Warmer than what??
Cold wet heavy precipitation in the North
Warm and dry in the south.
The demarcation line across the middle of the country will be volatile.
Time will tell, as always :)
I’m in the NC mountains. Looks like our linemen can count on plenty of overtime coming up.
I think I read that the farmer’s almanac is about 80% accurate. I used to get one every year for my BIL for Christmas.
I keep seeing Northern Indiana and Southern Michigan as dry for this summer. I see it spotty as hell and that will only be exposed in the zip code by zip code bean yields.
As someone in the lake effect snow belt, any prediction is incorrect....we will get nailed by storms, we will get missed by storms, but it will snow and the entire regions aquifers will be topped up on April 1.
Another dry winter for Texas, great, just what we needed...
Has anyone ever done a study to compare the accuracy of the Old Farmer’s with the National Weather Service?
Additional states with a mild and dry forecast included California, Alaska, Hawaii, the Dakotas, Iowa, Wisconsin, Michigan, Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas, and Louisiana.
As long as the Great Lakes don't warm up a lot, snowfall tends to be light, but concentrated in just one or two big snow dumps. And unless the plow has to come for me to get out of the driveway, it isn't a big snow dump. 😎
I’ll trust him before the Farmer’s Almanac.
Was just visiting family in western NY. From what they said its been so warm this summer, Lake Erie is likely not to freeze, or at least freeze later in winter thereby creating the potential for lots of lake effect snow.
I’m using the “fat squirrel” methodology.
Last year the squirrel’s were kinda scrawny at this time, and we had a very poor winter.
This year they are nice and plumped up, so looking at a big winter. Earlier also.
As a resident of Washington State, pretty much every winter here is wet. I believe that November is our wettest month.
Right now, we are having a very dry period of weather. We have a large wildfire going on and they could really use some rain.
“A study found that The Old Farmer’s Almanac was only 50.7% accurate on monthly temperatures and 51.9% accurate on precipitation forecasts. This is comparable to flipping a coin. The accuracy rate claimed by the Almanac is 80%, but this has not been consistently proven.”
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