[Texas Mom]

I have always gone on the old wives tale that a bumper crop of acorns meant a hard and long winter. A sparse crop meant a mild winter and early spring. It has always proved to be true IMHO..

[Bailee]

Its gonna be a long hard winter then. My Ground is covered with Acorns. Squirrels around here are having a bonanza.

[Fichori]

What are ACORN’s good for?
(Besides electing communists and making squirrels fat)

[ozark hilljilly]

“I have always gone on the old wives tale that a bumper crop of acorns meant a hard and long winter...”

I was gonna mention that, too!
It’s true here in the Ozarks as far as I have observed for the past 24 years. And this year we had a buttload of acorns!
More global warming this winter, I reckon. ; )

[The Cajun]

A sparse crop meant a mild winter and early spring.

Hard to tell this year, with the two hurricanes running through here, what type of acorn and pecan crop it would have been. Both are very scarce this year.

[Smokin' Joe]

I have always gone on the old wives tale that a bumper crop of acorns meant a hard and long winter. A sparse crop meant a mild winter and early spring. It has always proved to be true IMHO..

Maybe, but it is twenty below here tonight with -50 windchill, and I haven't seen an acorn all year.

(Maybe I should move some place that has oak trees...) (8^D)

[Mercat]

Maybe in Virginia. Here in Kansas we have all brown wooly bears this year and you know what that means.

[FrankR]

"I have always gone on the old wives tale that a bumper crop of acorns meant a hard and long winter. A sparse crop meant a mild winter and early spring. It has always proved to be true IMHO.. "

I've heard that too. I've got several oaks on my property, and two giant hickory trees. About 8 years ago, I had tons of acorns and hickory nuts almost as big as golf balls. But the last couple of years it's been a little sparse on the acorns and the hickory nuts are fewer in number and not much bigger than a large marble. I was thinking it was the drought, because the last couple of years we've been way low on rainfall.

But as you mentioned, the weather about eight years ago here (in north georgia) was pretty cold and we had a couple of snowstorms that year. The last couple of years has been milder...probably that gorebull warming.

[vetvetdoug]

NE Mississippi Quercus/Oak have produced more acorns than the previous several years. The deer are fat, the squirrels are fat and the ground is covered. The pecans and walnut trees produced a bumper crop, as did the crabapples and persimmons.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Maybe North Dakota and Montana had a lot of acorns this year. :-)