Posted on 02/14/2010 6:48:33 AM PST by Libloather
Berks Almanac Writer Predicts More Snow In 2010
Pam Cunningham | Reporter
Predicting snow and big storms can be a tricky business. Farmers have relied on almanacs for decades to help them plant their crops. The Moyer Almanac is written for the Berks County area and 69 News sat down with its author to see if you can put those snow blowers away.
The one two punch of snow storms this past week dumped a lot of inches on the ground. But that's nothing says Lester Moyer compared to 1958.
**SNIP**
For those of you who were hoping that we were done with lots of snow in 2010 Lester Moyer says no in his almanac. He writes, on March 7th when the moon changes at 10:42 am, moon show high wind and drifting snow.
"If I had to give it an indication I would say we're looking at 40 inches or maybe plus. If, that's the worse scenario." says Moyer.
But Moyer says he is only accurate 85 to 90 percent of the time. And one of those off times was when he spoke to the Reading Eagle about 2010.
"You said total seasonal snowfall of about 18 to 20 inches. I should have designated that has nuisance snows."
Nuisance snows are less than eight inches. He's predicting the March 7th storm to be more than that. So we're going to get more, we're going to get a lot more.
"That's not the worse yet. Go to April." says Moyer
He says April 21st another storm could come possibly a wintry mix. He says in 1999 he predicted a similarly late in the season storm.
(Excerpt) Read more at wfmz.com ...
I don’t know how many people have told me that at the end of this month, we will have a snowstorm that would make the last two storms seem mild.
Channel 10’s Ken or Brad hasn’t said anything about this huge storm, so I asked where they were getting the information.
I received two answers: The Farmers Almanac and fog days. Okay, I understand the almanac thing, but fog days?
Apparently, 90 days after a heavy fog, we usually get a nasty storm of some kind. And, the fog day counter who I was talking to Friday night said so far the days and storms had even out pretty darn close.
Hearing about the storm is just what we all need to hear.
The warm days gave us a reason to find an excuse to leave our houses and offices, and most importantly, melted a lot of snow, even though for us living in the country we are now driving on muddy roads.
The winter has been a long one to me.
I used to enjoy these kinds of days but not anymore. I was told my age was showing there, but I don’t think I’m alone in that thought.
The North Platte cousin has been in and out of the hospital this past month, but he laughs it off and says it was a good way to get out of scooping snow everyday.
His jokes came to a stand still for those few weeks, but he is now back at it.
I thought he would be attacking hospitals, nurses and those lovely hospital gowns, but instead he has been sending me jokes about winter. Such as the following:
“You know it’s a cold day when your teeth starting chattering and they’re still on the nightstand.”
“I’m right on schedule. The winter’s half over, and I’m half frozen.”
But my favorite joke, which you’ve seen before, is the following:
“On the sixth day, God turned to the Archangel Gabriel and said,
‘Today I am going to create a land called Nebraska. It will be a land of outstanding natural beauty. It shall have tall majestic landscapes full of buffalo, tall grass, and hawks, beautiful skies, forests full of elk and deer, rich farmland and fair skinned people.’”
“God continued, ‘I shall make the land rich in resources so as to make the inhabitants prosper. I shall call these inhabitants, Cornhuskers, and they shall be known as a most friendly people.’
‘But Lord,’ asked Gabriel, ‘don’t you think you are being too generous to these Cornhuskers?’
‘Not really,’ replied God. ‘Just wait and see the winters I am going to give them.’”
I expect more winter jokes from the North Platte cousin now that he’s back sitting in front of his computer. And if that fog counter is correct, we can expect some nasty weather in 90 days.
http://omahanewsstand.com/articles/2010/01/27/waverly_news/news/doc4b577171ad52d915317380.txt
Samples taken in the early 90's were not absolutely conclusive because average temperatures and precip were warmer than average. This year, the temps and snow are below average. Although the sample taken in October was not as large as in some previous years, the color was heavily cinnamon with little black.
Wooly worm colors do not accurately predict severity of the coming winter
Say it isn’t so!!!!!!!
The entrails of a sacrificed sheep do not predict the outcome of a battle.
The positions of the stars and planets has nothing to do with a person’s love-life.
And almanacs do not predict weather.
The entrails of a sacrificed sheep do not predict the outcome of a battle.
The positions of the stars and planets have nothing to do with a person’s love-life.
And almanacs do not predict weather.
Neither do weathermen ;)
Actually, there’s more science to the Alamanac than you think. It relies heavily on sunsopt activity.
i.e. if this, this , and this have occurred, then there's a >50% chance this will happen again this month for this region of the US.
All in all, The Farmers Almanac is 74% accurate year to year.
The entrails of a sacrificed sheep do not predict the outcome of a battle.
The positions of the stars and planets has nothing to do with a person’s love-life.
And almanacs do not predict weather.
Ahhh, but more accurate than those AGW computer models they have.
That's a hell of a lot more accurate than any gorebull warming merde coming from the IPCC at the UN and or the warming alarmists.
Then again, with climate change as the mantra, they get to have it both ways, always.
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