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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsFarmers Almanac getting prediction wrong for 2012, so far
http://www.farmersalmanac.com/weather/2011/08/29/2012-us-winter-forecast/Get Ready for a Wet, Wild Winter in 2012!
The upcoming winter looks to be cold to very cold for the Northern Plains, parts of the Northern Rockies, and the western Great Lakes. In contrast, above-normal temperatures are expected across most of the southern and eastern U.S. Near-normal temperatures are expected in the Midwest and Far West, and in southern
Florida.
A very active storm track will bring much heavier-than-normal precipitation from the Southern Plains through Tennessee into Ohio, the Great Lakes, and the Northeast. Because of above normal temperatures, much of the precipitation will likely be rain or mixed precipitation, although, during February, some potent East Coast storms could leave heavy snow, albeit of a wet and slushy consistency.
An active Pacific Storm track will guide storm systems into the Pacific Northwest, giving it a wetter-than-normal winter.
Drier-than-normal weather will occur in the Southwest and Southeast corners of the nation.
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Farmers Almanac getting prediction wrong for 2012, so far (Original Post)
warrior1
Jan 2012
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DCKit
(18,541 posts)1. The Farmers Almanac bases their predictions on past years and current circumstances.
This climate is a whole new ballgame.
brewens
(13,620 posts)2. I was loving it. I drive a bus for a blood center. Mostly on the Palouse region
of Washington state and Idaho. I've had it easy this year and the end of the usual bad weather months is getting close.
Now I'm getting a little worried. We have no snowpack in the mountains A wet late winter and spring can still save us and get the reservoirs full. I'm thinking it will be a miserable summer though. I'm going to get some camping and rafting in as early as possible before things dry out too much.
Bonhomme Richard
(9,000 posts)3. I'm sitting on the back porch, without a jacket, on the laptop and
there is actually a guy two doors down cutting his lawn on a rider mower. I kid you not. Connecticut.
Odin2005
(53,521 posts)4. They thought 2005 would have a below-average hurricane season, LMAO!
It's woo.