Early Winter ?

Billy NY

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I keep seeing deer with much of their winter coat coming on, farmers almanac seems to point in this direction, so I have to wonder what peoples thoughts are this year.
 
All the "woleybears" I have seen this year so far are all white or yellowish, with no stripes front to back. I haven't seen a normal colored one, orange and black yet. What does that mean?
Loren, the Acg.
 
Many people I have talked to say we are going to have a bad winter. There is a saying fog in Aug and you will have an early winter and a rough one
 
Dad used to say ; "If there is lots of hay, you better save it all, if the crop is light, you can be wasteful" Hay is really turning out this summer.
 
The lighter the color of the woolly worms, the colder the winter. They are light colored around here. We have had many fogs this August, so lots of snow. Saw a huge rattlesnake spider building a web last evening, so an early fall.
Got lots of firewood to cut after the June tornado.
Been the coolest summer and the wettest in my 61 years on this earth. Turned 61 today.
Richard in NW SC
 
Zach:

How is a table going to keep you warm?

Me, I'm going to wrap myself up in a thick wool blanket.

Doc
 
Yesterday morning it was 74 degrees in ND according to my ISP home page; this morning it was 44 degrees there. If they get a frost, there won't be much corn or soybeans to harvest.

Meanwhile, it was 83 this morning here in AZ.
 
Sure hope winter does not come early... it left very LATE last spring. We got nailed with 15 inches of snow on May 2!
 
It was autumn, and members of a Native American tribe asked their new Chief if the coming winter was going to be cold or mild. Since he was a new Chief in a modern society and had never been taught the old secrets of Nature, he looked up at the sky and had no clue what to do. To play it safe, he replied to his tribe that the winter could definitely be cold and that they should collect firewood early, just to be prepared. So, the members began gathering wood.

Being a practical leader, he figured he should also use the resources available to the modern society. He went to the phone booth, called the National Weather Service and asked, "Will this winter be cold?"

"As of now, it looks like this winter is going to be quite cold," the forecaster said.

So the Chief went back to his tribe and told them to collect even more wood. A week later he called the National Weather Service again and asked for an update.

"Yes," the man at National Weather Service again replied, "based on incoming data, this winter is looking to be colder than we expected." The Chief was surprised, but again went back to his tribe, told them that this might be a very cold winter, and asked them to collect every scrap of wood they could find.

One week later, the Chief called the National Weather Service yet again, hoping for a new answer. "Are you absolutely sure that the winter is going to be very cold?"

"Positive," the man replied. "It's going to be one of the coldest winters ever."

"Really?" the shocked Chief exclaimed. "How can you be so sure?"

The forecaster replied, "The Indians are collecting firewood like crazy."
 
(quoted from post at 07:01:51 09/02/13) All the "woleybears" I have seen this year so far are all white or yellowish, with no stripes front to back. I haven't seen a normal colored one, orange and black yet. What does that mean?
Loren, the Acg.


All the wooly bears on this side of the hill are normal 2/3 black. 1/3 brown. We haven't had too many fogs this Aug either. Maybe all the cold will stay someplace else and it'll be 65 and sunny all winter here..... :roll:
 
the arctic(north pole) ice cap did not melt as much this summer as last year. Also, there is heavier ice toward the eastern Canada area now, meaning the arctic cold is already pushing that direction. That is basically how an early forecast is made.
 

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