Farmers Almanac – Get Ready for a Cold Bitter Winter

Are Farmers' Almanacs accurate? Each year we hear about how the weather will be in other parts of the country. The Old Farmer's Almanac predicts winter will bring a lot of snow for much of the country.

According to a story on the Daily Mail website, the almanac says 'people should look for above-normal snow and below-normal temperatures for much of New England; 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.

The almanac says 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.

The weather predictions are based on a secret formula that founder Robert B. Thomas designed using solar cycles, climatology and meteorology.