what the government says for Jan/Feb/Mar 
Posted on 08/25/2013 6:22:52 PM PDT by Hojczyk
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.
Modern scientists don't put much stock in sunspots or tidal action, but the almanac says its forecasts used by readers to plan weddings and plant gardens are correct about 80 percent of the time.
Last year, the forecast called for cold weather for the eastern and central U.S. with milder temperatures west of the Great Lakes. It started just the opposite but ended up that way.
(Excerpt) Read more at cbsnews.com ...
Perhaps Al Gore does not, but I believe some scientists watch sunspots with great interest.
Global warming....
This has been the coldest August in Upstate New York I’ve ever experienced.
No “dog days” at all. Mostly clear and cool. Clear chilly nights.
I’ve lived here 50 years.
I’m blessed to have a very tight well insulated small house with nat gas heat.
Bring it on!
Which has gotta be at least as good as THE NATIONAL WEATHERCAPSLOCKSERVICE
Probably as good a forecast as that from the IPCC.
There are many Farmer’s Almanacs across the country. The one most local to you is regarded as being best and most accurate. They rely on Chaldean “Saros” cycles of around 20 years, with the supposition that weather reapeats to an extent. The local almanac here is Blum’s Almanac, 2013 will be the 185th edition I believe, My paternal grandparents planted, transplanted, pruned and harvested by it, as did everybody else. It doesn’t come out until early September, so I don’t know whether it agrees with the one cited inmthe article. Blum’s has been broadly accurate in my experience. Maybe not down to individual days but it gets the trends right.
It would be interesting to know what the percentage actually is.
I hope we have a colder one here than the last couple. Don’t need much snow or ice, just more cold. Something that will knock back the tick population for next summer.
Ticks have been awful the last two summers because our winters were not cold enough.
We’ve had one week of what I’d call typical summer weather and the rest has been rain, rain, rain with below normal temps, sometimes well below normal. I’m in NC.
“Perhaps Al Gore does not, but I believe some scientists watch sunspots with great interest.”
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As a ham radio operator that specialized in worldwide communications, I watched the sunspot reports with great interest. Gore knows sunspots only as a skin problem.
I lived for the 11 year sunspot cycle.
In the peak, one could communicate with all corners of the world, and at the same time. During the low period of the cycle, the radio bands would be dead.
By the time I quit, I had communicated with most every spot on the planet, making it to “Top of the Honor Roll” DE W4EX.
Same here in Colorado. Temps in August hovering around 65° and rain every day. We average 12” per year with last year being below that. The forest fire were amazing. Since the fires we have had over 30” of rain, often 3” per hour or more. A few towns over is having flash flooding that is wiping out parts of the town and killing people. We went from bone dry for several years to more rain than has been seen in decades.
My fear is some Al Gore ‘true believer’ types (fools with more money than brains) hired people to seed the atmosphere with ‘reflect the sun back’ crap... That brain dead bunch has talked about it before... God help us if that’s what they’ve done.
Bush’s fault.
Check out the latest headlines from this website that supports their prediction.
http://iceagenow.info/
And these headlines, too!
North Pole Sees Unprecedented July Cold – Arctic Sees Shortest Summer On Record...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3050902/posts
what the government says for Jan/Feb/Mar
Ticks? Imported Fire Ants say “Yummy”. Get you some, they’ll take care of an over-abundance of ticks.
August has been cool and wet here in Maryland this year. I predict an early frost and a lot of snow this year.
This long range weather forecast is based on the "saros" climate cycle that generally repeats itself every 6585 days. The word "saros" comes from the ancient Chaldeans who used this cycle to predict eclipses. The moon will very nearly return in 6585 days to today's position in its orbital geometry relative to the earth and sun.
Lunar gravitation affects the major circulation patterns of the earth's oceans and atmosphere. Thus, large scale weather events can be predicted with some accuracy if one looks back at the country's weather 18.03 years ago.
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