Farmers' Almanac Predicts Numbing Cold This Winter

then i suggest you move south! for example, south central kansas.
 
Here is my prediction.

It will, on average, get colder until the dead of winter when it well then gradually get warmer towards spring. This trend will peak in mid-summer when it will again begin to cool. Rinse and repeat.
 
wabower said:
Did they tell Al?
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Trapper John said:
I thought Al Roker gave up doing the weather and is eating for a living.


Trapper John
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Al says he cannot hear you over the rain
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They very well could be right. Our cool wx this summer was arctic air from Canada cooling things down. If the trend continues it will be a cold winter indeed.
 
Haha! I wonder what winter in Alaska will be like? Maybe Canada will blame AK for their cold winter?
 
AWACSEng said:
Haha! I wonder what winter in Alaska will be like? Maybe Canada will blame AK for their cold winter?
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Dunno, but my brother-in-law who is on his way back to AK from Iraq as we speak will probably experience the two extremes of the temperature range during his life this year. He said his thermometer read 120*F one day this summer, but that's just because that is as high as it read. And he'll spend this winter in either Anchorage or Fairbanks, depending on what mood the Army is in.
 
Farmers aren't going to be enjoying the drying costs this year. It is going to be ugly.

Eggman
 
James_Dean said:
Farmers aren't going to be enjoying the drying costs this year. It is going to be ugly.

Eggman
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Maybe some farmers will just leave it in the fields until the last possible moment like they did last year. That seemed to work well when we had 12" of snow in November which lead to standing corn in some fields in March of this year. Oops...
 
Not to mention, with the anticipated El Nino, the West Coast could end up with enough winter rain and snowfall to break the drought cycle they have been in for the past several years. Rivers and reservoirs are down, so farmers are hurting for water.

And of course, it would mean a great ski season.... The El Nino of 1982-83 dropped 68 FEET of snow at Kirkwood that winter (I was there) and filled every lake and reservoir in Northern Calif, and then some!

This was after a drought period many scientists believed would take several above average snow years to resolve.

The downside to an El Nino is that it usually means dryer winters for Utah and Colorado... cold, but drier...
 
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Let'sgoflying! said:
Just another sign of that there global warming. /panic
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Very well could be. Warmer temperatures means more energetic and erratic weather. Moreover, while the average temperature on the globe increases, there can be localized decreases, like a colder than normal winter.

That said, it would have to get very, very cold indeed to be abnormally cold for here.
 
Typical afternoon temps in Kuwait were 127-ish when I was flying there regularly in the G-V. We quickly learned not to touch the handrails when deplaning, if we had been parked for any length of time.

CJones said:
Dunno, but my brother-in-law who is on his way back to AK from Iraq as we speak will probably experience the two extremes of the temperature range during his life this year. He said his thermometer read 120*F one day this summer, but that's just because that is as high as it read. And he'll spend this winter in either Anchorage or Fairbanks, depending on what mood the Army is in.
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CJones said:
Dunno, but my brother-in-law who is on his way back to AK from Iraq as we speak will probably experience the two extremes of the temperature range during his life this year. He said his thermometer read 120*F one day this summer, but that's just because that is as high as it read. And he'll spend this winter in either Anchorage or Fairbanks, depending on what mood the Army is in.
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Shock cooling?
 
It seems they were right.
 
Borrowed from another thread:

It's late fall and the Indians on a remote reservation in North Dakota asked their chief if the coming winter was going to be cold or mild.

Being a practical leader he got the idea to call the National Weather Service and asked, 'Is the coming winter going to be cold?'

'It looks like this winter is going to be quite cold,' the meteorologist at the weather service responded.

So the chief went back to his people and told them to collect more firewood in order to be prepared.

A week later, he called the National Weather Service again. 'Does it still look like it is going to be a very cold winter?'

'Yes,' the man at National Weather Service again replied, 'it's going to be a very cold winter.'

The chief went back to his people and ordered them to collect every scrap of firewood they could find.

Two weeks later, the chief called the National Weather Service again. 'Are you absolutely sure that the winter is going to be very cold?'

'Absolutely,' the man replied. 'It's looking more and more like it is going to be one of the coldest winters we've ever seen.'

'How can you be so sure?' the chief asked.

The weatherman replied, 'The Indians are collecting firewood like crazy.'
 
Actually, this is the type of winter I remember well from my undergraduate days. Brutal cold, lots of snow staying on the ground for long periods of time. Nothing at all unusual about it from my perspective.
 
:rofl::rofl::rofl:

shywon said:
Borrowed from another thread:

It's late fall and the Indians on a remote reservation in North Dakota asked their chief if the coming winter was going to be cold or mild.

Being a practical leader he got the idea to call the National Weather Service and asked, 'Is the coming winter going to be cold?'

'It looks like this winter is going to be quite cold,' the meteorologist at the weather service responded.

So the chief went back to his people and told them to collect more firewood in order to be prepared.

A week later, he called the National Weather Service again. 'Does it still look like it is going to be a very cold winter?'

'Yes,' the man at National Weather Service again replied, 'it's going to be a very cold winter.'

The chief went back to his people and ordered them to collect every scrap of firewood they could find.

Two weeks later, the chief called the National Weather Service again. 'Are you absolutely sure that the winter is going to be very cold?'

'Absolutely,' the man replied. 'It's looking more and more like it is going to be one of the coldest winters we've ever seen.'

'How can you be so sure?' the chief asked.

The weatherman replied, 'The Indians are collecting firewood like crazy.'
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Palmpilot said:
That's right, because scientists have been predicting that there will be no more cold winters........NOT!!!
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Those that make these global warming jokes are clearly ignorant as to what global warming really is - They're talking what, like 2 degrees across 100 years? It's not something you're gonna feel... :no:

That said, I think the whole global warming/climate change crap is the stupidest argument ever, no matter which side you're on. What would we do if there was 100% proof of global warming? Make more clean energy, make vehicles more efficient, reduce our dependence on buying oil from people who want to kill us, etc... Which of these is bad, exactly? :dunno:
 
flyingcheesehead said:
Those that make these global warming jokes are clearly ignorant as to what global warming really is - They're talking what, like 2 degrees across 100 years? It's not something you're gonna feel... :no:

That said, I think the whole global warming/climate change crap is the stupidest argument ever, no matter which side you're on. What would we do if there was 100% proof of global warming? Make more clean energy, make vehicles more efficient, reduce our dependence on buying oil from people who want to kill us, etc... Which of these is bad, exactly? :dunno:
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None, but doing so in a panic in a very short period of time will cripple the world economy.

However, according to global warming prophets we were supposed to already be feeling a worldwide escalation of temperatures and significant increases in ocean levels by now. Instead there's been a leveling off of global temps over the last 10 years with a gradual downturn, not to mention record lows and snowfalls in many places around the world this winter.

The US already leads the world in green technology and clean industries. We've lowered our CO2 output more than many signatories of the Kyoto Protocol (which we wisely did not sign).
 
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Hell of a rude greeting on my return home today.
 
flyingcheesehead said:
Those that make these global warming jokes are clearly ignorant as to what global warming really is - They're talking what, like 2 degrees across 100 years? It's not something you're gonna feel... :no:
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Either that, or we're making a sarcastic statement about the notion that global warming is the end of the world.

Pointy-haired boss: "Can you make sarcastic statements?"
Dogbert: "No, I can just witty statements with appropriate timing such as to confuse the unwashed masses."
PHB: "Oh, darn... wait! That was your sarcastic way of saying you can!"
DB: "Did you figure that out all by yourself?"
PHB: "Why yes I did, thank you! Wait, you weren't trying to make me feel better. Listen, I hate you. Get out of my office."
 
Coldest winter in almost 20 years here in Atlanta.

Warming my ass.....
 
tdager said:
Coldest winter in almost 20 years here in Atlanta.

Warming my ass.....
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If it was the hottest summer in 20 years in Atlanta, would that "prove" global warming? Would you come here and make a testimony that now you're a believer?
-harry
 
CJones said:
Maybe some farmers will just leave it in the fields until the last possible moment like they did last year. That seemed to work well when we had 12" of snow in November which lead to standing corn in some fields in March of this year. Oops...
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Again, a couple of months after this post, but there are significant amounts of beans still in the fields at home (this was end of December) - fields have apparently got too soggy before they could be gotten out.
 
Obi Heed Kenobi said:
Again, a couple of months after this post, but there are significant amounts of beans still in the fields at home (this was end of December) - fields have apparently got too soggy before they could be gotten out.
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i heard that something like 70% of the corn crop in the Dakota's is still in the field. yikes.
 
tonycondon said:
i heard that something like 70% of the corn crop in the Dakota's is still in the field. yikes.
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I hope Chipotle doesn't start charging extra for the corn salsa. That would really screw up my universe. :)
 
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