The 2020 Farmers’ Almanac’s extended weather forecast has predicted an upcoming “polar coaster winter” that will affect the majority of the country — including those in the Great Lakes region.
The coldest outbreaks in late January are expected to affect millions of people in both the Great Lakes and the Northern Plains, with the temperature in the Plains possibly plummeting to as low as -40.
“We expect yet another wild ride this winter,” Pete Geiger, editor of Philom., said in a press release, “with extreme temperatures swings and some hefty snowfalls.”
The Almanac predicts a “freezing, frigid, and frosty” winter for most of the U.S., especially area between the Rockies and the Appalachians. The Midwest and Great Lakes region will also experience above-normal precipitation during the winter months, according to the almanac.
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This article appears in Aug 21-27, 2019.
I used to keep a copy of the Farmers’ Almanac in the bathroom…in case I ran out of toilet paper.
It has interesting stuff in it…but the weather forecasts are pulled from somone’s posterior orifice.
I’ll make my own predictions, which will probably be as good as (or better than) theirs: Winter will be shitty, as nearly all of them are. Winter will be cold….and there will be snow. Some places will be colder than other places. Some places will get more snow than other places. There will be light snow in some places and heavy snow in others.
Skies will be mostly cloudy a good deal of the time. There will be warm spells and cold spells. It might be warm enough for rain instead of snow. There will be ice and freezing rain, just to make things interesting.
Driving will suck. People will drive too fast on the sloppy roads. And people will stay home more and watch sports and drink more. The stores and their parking lots will be crowded in December, for some reason.
Bottom line: Same shit, different year.
Gee they predict cold in the winter in Cleveland. What shocking news. Get a life already you losers.
Gray, snowy, cold, miserable…and we’ll have to hear “Polar Vortex” and “Winter Wallop”…
About 5,000 times each. And all those stupid storm names on The Weather Channel. GAG! RETCH!