Farmer’s Almanac predicts “winter of the great divide”

 

What’s the Farmers Almanac have to say about the approaching winter?  Based on a “carefully-guarded formula” followed for 204 years, it’s predicting a lot of cold weather and snow in the East and the usual cold weather in Oklahoma, New Mexico and Kansas.

Oklahoma will still have some shots of cold weather and storms but nothing like what is expected from Tennessee eastward into Pennsylvania. The Northern and Central Plains will see a cold winter with normal to below-normal temperatures.

Snow will be abundant, possibly above-normal amounts for parts of the western Dakotas, northern portions of Colorado and Utah, as well as Wyoming, which is great news for skiers.

The southeastern part of the country, excluding the Tennessee Valley, will experience average precipitation levels, with temperatures chillier than normal.

Areas across the Desert Southwest (Arizona and southern California), winter is predicted to be mild but dry.

In New Mexico, Texas, Oklahoma east into Arkansas and Louisiana, Mother Nature will mix intervals of tranquil weather with occasional shots of cold and wintry precipitation.

Right along the Pacific Coastal Plain, from northern California and points north through western portions of Oregon and Washington, rainy and wet weather will be the rule for the winter ahead.

And then, according to the almanac, the “winter wild card” belongs to areas around the Tennessee and lower Ohio River valleys, north and east up through New England, which will see a mix of intense weather systems that will keep delivering a wintry mix of rainy, icy and snowy weather throughout the season.

And then during the second week of February, the almanac forecasts “a blizzard bringing 1-2 feet of snow along the eastern seaboard.

“If you didn’t like last winter’s somewhat-boring weather in the Northeast,” said managing editor Sandi Duncan, “you may be happy to hear what we are predicting for 2021.”

Because the Farmers’ Almanac is anticipating “cold and snowy conditions in the north, drought in the west, and everything crazy in between,” they’ve dubbed the upcoming winter the “winter of the great divide.”

Source: Pennlive.com