[NormsRevenge]

So far. I have heard we won't get much moisture out West this year and then I heard that we will and then that we won't.. and now this..

[edcoil]

Lets hope its warmer, might save us billions on heating oil and the north east.

[Red Badger]

I hope they are better at winter predictions than they are are hurricane predictions............

[EggsAckley]

My peacocks say we will have an early winter. They’re very wise about these things, ya know.

[proudofthesouth]

The Old Farmers Almanac has predicted the drought that has so affected the Southeast (northern Alabama in particular) will continue through 2008.

[GOP_Raider]

Sounds like I picked the wrong year to invest in heating oil.

/s (duh)

[Global2010]

I have been waiting for summer for 2 years now.

[LIConFem]

The next ice age cometh...

[Man50D]

I heard a report on Fox news this morning oil prices will rise due to an anticipated colder than normal winter! LOL!!!!

[CougarGA7]

What does the Farmer’s Almanac say? It’s probably more accurate.

[Jimmy Valentine's brother]

I think you’re on to something.
I’m still waiting for all the hurricanes that NOAA promised.

[gopsue]

So far our temps are 10 degrees BELOW normal here in WA State....and our summer was terrible! What summer? It felt like spring.

I am already wearing my Columbia parka on the way to work (gotta walk to my office).

[Domandred]

I’m using my completely unscientific method of Chukar population in Idaho as my winter predictor. Chukar population is the lowest it has been in 23 years I think it is. 22 years ago (the year after the previous record low count) the Chukar population was at a record high because of greater then average snowfall allowing for more water and vegetation in the spring. So if history of Chukar population holds true then this year should have greater then average snowfall.

Completely unscientific, but just as accurate as NOAA predictions :)

[Badeye]

‘The Ohio and Tennessee Valleys, northern Rockies and Hawaii will be wetter than normal this winter, the agency predicted.’

Here in Southern Ohio lord knows we need the rain and snow to make up for the drought we’ve been experiencing for the past six or seven months.

Yesterday we tied the known all time high temperature record, topping out at 91 degrees.

In October its 91, and we haven’t had the deluge of falling leaves?

[Coldwater Creek]

I live in West Tenn. We are 18 inches below normal, and still breaking heat records.

I long for that good old So. Cal climate.

[dbwz]

above-average temperatures in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic in response to the long-term warming trend.

I will have no complaints about that whatsoever.

[freekitty]

Who says, The Nobel Prize boo boo, Gore?

[Virginia Ridgerunner]

Good...my natural gas bills will drop if it’s 40 degrees outside instead of 30. Woohoo!

[MarineBrat]

The unusually cold winter here in the San Joaquin Valley killed half of my avacado trees last year, so we’re destined for 10 years of mild winters. You heard it here first! :)

[lilylangtree]

“except for the northern Plains and Northwest states”

Dang, dang, dang, double dang, triple dang, etc.

[crazyshrink]

Does anyone know if NOAA has weather spotters who check on these and/or have they developed a computer model that includes them?

Whether corn husks are open or closed?

The stripes on wooly bear caterpillars?

The size and location of muskrat piles?

The little donkey on a card with a piece of baling twine for a tail?

The weather stone?