US in for a very chilly winter, according to ancient almanac
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The Old Farmer’s Almanac said it will be super cold with a slew of snow for much of the United States, even in places that don’t usually see too much of it, like the Pacific Northwest.
There’s plenty more to peruse in the folksy, annual book of household tips, trends, recipes and articles, such as animal jealousy, the history of shoes and anticipation for the biggest Supermoon in decades in November 2016.
Otherwise, look for above-normal snow and below-normal temperatures for much of the northeastern New England states, icy conditions in parts of the South and frigid weather in the Midwest. The snowiest periods in the Pacific Northwest will be in mid-December, early to mid-January and mid- to late February, according to the almanac.
“Just about everybody who gets snow will have a White Christmas in one capacity or another,” editor Janice Stillman said from Dublin, New Hampshire, where the almanac is compiled. It’s due out in the coming week.
There will be above normal-rainfall in the first half of the winter in California, but then that will dry up and the drought is expected to continue.
“We don’t expect a whole lot of relief,” Stillman said.
The predictions are based on a secret formula that founder Robert Thomas designed using solar cycles, climatology and meteorology. Forecasts emphasize how much temperature and precipitation will deviate from 30-year means compiled by the government.
No one’s perfect, and meteorologists generally pooh-pooh the Almanac’s forecasts as too unscientific. The almanac, which defends its accuracy for its predictions overall, said its greatest errors were in underestimating how far above normal California temperatures and Boston-area snowfall would be, though it did predict both would be above normal.
The record-breaking winter in Boston dumped more than 279 centimeters of snow on the city. The almanac doesn’t call for as much this year.
The 224-year-old book is believed to be the oldest continually published periodical in North America.
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