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Post by daylilydude on Oct 19, 2014 6:55:41 GMT -5
Have seen a sudden considerable number of wooly bears crossing the road. However, these are almost all black in their middle band and light brown just on the tips. Supposedly this means a mild winter. But some folk tales tell of a long hard winter when there are lots of heavy fog days back to back, Others refer to acorns dropping in large numbers; Still others refer to the amount of squirrel activity. Do you have a folk tale that you swear by???
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Post by paulf on Oct 19, 2014 14:13:18 GMT -5
If by next May we have had lots of snow and cold we will have had a rough winter. Folk tales must have some basis, but I can't figure out why. I know....party poop.
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Post by spacecase0 on Oct 20, 2014 0:25:28 GMT -5
I watch the sun cycle, then go look up the past weather for similar sun cycles, I have not had a weather related crop failure from when I started doing that. this year is a low solar activity year that is pretty close to last year, and many other years in the past like 1880,
watching the sun cycle is also how the old farmers almanac has had the 75% accurate success rate in long term weather predictions for such a long time.
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