Farmers' Almanac predicts colder-than-normal winter for most of US

Fox News ^ | August 26, 2013 | Associated Press

[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.

[Black Agnes]

https://twitter.com/RyanMaue/status/372445458158735362/photo/1

[blam]

Thanks...cold coming.

[citizen]

Interesting and very colorful. That is another example of a colder than normal souther hemisphere. (For one that started out using an 8 phone party line as a child, I constantly marvel at the continuing advances in all forms of electronic and digital communication.)

Here is a youtube blast from the past. Leonard Nimoy, 1978. And yes, that winter was darned cold!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kGB5MMIAVA&feature=player_embedded#t=0

[Black Agnes]

My BFF in highschool was on a party line. Shared it with a little old widow lady. When we’d been gossiping like typical teenage females for a while, the little old lady would pick up the phone and say something like ‘you girls have talked enough!’, and hang up. We’d get the message and give her 30 or 45m to get her telephoning done and then call each other back.