In the U.S., prepare to shiver with below-normal winter temperatures from the Heartland westward to the Pacific and in the Desert Southwest, Pacific Southwest, and Hawaii but above normal winter temperatures elsewhere. The cold will continue through Valentine’s Day—providing the perfect excuse to stay indoors and snuggle! But be warned: Winter will not be over yet!
For some parts of the country, frigid and frosty conditions will last well into spring, bringing little relief to the winter-weary. “This could feel like the never-ending winter, particularly in the Midwest and east to the Ohio Valley and Appalachians, where wintery weather will last well into March and even through the first days of spring,” says Almanac editor Janice Stillman.
[...] In the U.S., this winter will be remembered for strong storms bringing a steady roofbeat of heavy rain and sleet, not to mention piles of snow. The 2020 Old Farmer’s Almanac is calling for frequent snow events—from flurries to no fewer than seven big snowstorms from coast to coast, including two in April for the Intermountain region west of the Rockies.
This snow-verload will include storms pummeling Washington state and points eastward across the northern-tier states into Michigan. For the normally rain-soaked Northwest, this could mean a repeat of last winter’s record-breaking extremes, including the Snowpocalypse that dumped 20.2 inches on Seattle in February.
https://www.almanac.com/old-farmers-almanac-2020-winter-forecast
(Score: 2) by black6host on Thursday September 12 2019, @03:04AM (1 child)
Ok, the article is about the Old Farmer's Almanac. We have a competitor, the Farmers' Almanac:
https://www.farmersalmanac.com/extended-forecast [farmersalmanac.com]
Just for comparison and so folks might judge for themselves which might have a better forecast based on past performance.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 12 2019, @03:12AM
butbut shirely global climate change is averted! there's a giant conspiracy among climate scientists not to update their graphs month-to-month! something about their lambos and porsches!
(Score: 2) by epitaxial on Thursday September 12 2019, @03:19AM (3 children)
Now let me get this straight. This winter is going to be cold? You're shitting me! And it's going to be winter until March when Spring finally rolls around? My god...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 12 2019, @06:53AM (1 child)
Do you have a statistically significant model to prove that, or is it just anecdotal?
(Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Thursday September 12 2019, @09:40AM
He can't even forecast the weather next month, but he wants us to tell that the next winter will be colder than last summer? That doesn't make sense! Don't believe those season scientists! It's clearly all part of a big conspiracy!
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 2) by barbara hudson on Friday September 13 2019, @03:49PM
SoylentNews is social media. Says so right in the slogan. Soylentnews is people, not tech.
(Score: 4, Interesting) by istartedi on Thursday September 12 2019, @06:02AM (6 children)
How about something a bit more scientific? [noaa.gov]. Although NOAA may not have a much better track record that far out, at least they're using models that we could presumably examine as opposed to the Almanac's proprietary methods that, AFAIK, they don't disclose. In terms of there being a snowy upper Midwest at least, it sounds like the Almanac just copied from NOAA.
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(Score: 2) by aristarchus on Thursday September 12 2019, @06:58AM (2 children)
Entrails of late-born fowl, steeped in the blood of an unjustly executed man, mixed with eye of newt and toe of frog, and Trump administrations experts on Science!
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/11/us/politics/trump-alabama-noaa.html [nytimes.com]
Poor sucking Wilbur, wanted to be a Billionaire, but failed. Got into the Trump administration, but that by itself is a fail. Wanted to ask American Citizens if they were really American Citizens, who could legally possess guns, and failed. So much failure, so little Ross. Almost FlynnBannonBoltonesque. Almost.
Eds: Can't believe you have fallen for it yet again! Please, a little discernment? Or just accept nothing but aristarchus submissions, since you ability to discern is obviously on the fritz.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 12 2019, @09:07AM
Sir! It is rude to speak with your hand outside your cloak.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 12 2019, @01:57PM
Wilbur reminds me of Mr. Ed's other end.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 12 2019, @08:16AM (2 children)
A friend of mine is a private climatologist for one of the almanacs. He tells me that despite the handwaving they do about using moon cycles and other wives's tales, they have an extensive and sophisticated meteorology department that uses a multi-model system comprised of some of the latest research on a private cloud to make predictions. They then give their stuff to a different department that adds all the fluff to make it sound the way people expect. Plus, they add a lot of "it will be a cold winter with warm spells" in order to raise their apparent hit rate regardless of how accurate the underlying prediction is.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 12 2019, @11:15AM (1 child)
I predict it will be a warm winter with cold spells.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 12 2019, @08:05PM
Same difference. Either way people will remember the hits and forget the misses. Such vague statements are a key to prognostication.
(Score: -1, Spam) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 12 2019, @09:29PM
APK annihilated that STUPID lying deluding itself it is a real woman (when it never can be) "TrAnSteSticLe" monstrosity aberration abomination of desolation https://soylentnews.org/comments.pl?noupdate=1&sid=33430&page=1&cid=889582#commentwrap [soylentnews.org] that made technical errors galore vs. him and lied saying apk started it when proof quoted proves otherwise!