Hold on to your umbrellas … and tune up your AC! Summer is coming early this year, and it may bring the hottest temperatures in recorded history! Here is the Farmers’ Almanac Summer Weather Forecast 2024, including wet weather planting suggestions, regional forecasts for Father’s Day, Fourth of July, and Canada Day. Plus, two late-season
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Read MoreLake effect snow occurs when dry, below-freezing air moves over relatively warm water. Lake water and the air directly above it warms and humidifies the colder air, which rises and cools, causing the humidity to condense into clouds and then fall as snow. During this process, the wind acts as a conveyor belt of humidity
Read MoreAccording to popular folklore, a persimmon can predict winter weather. How do you make a persimmon forecast? It’s easy. Just split open a seed of a locally grown fruit and look at the pattern inside. If you see a fork, winter will be mild. A shovel (or spoon shape)? It will be snowy. A knife
Read MoreAccording to popular folklore, a persimmon can predict winter weather. How do you make a persimmon forecast? It’s easy. Just split open seeds of a locally grown fruit and look at the pattern inside. Here’s everything you need to know: “Some people believe persimmon seeds can predict the severity of winter weather,” says Farmers’ Almanac
Read MoreA wide variety of extreme weather conditions made summer 2023 one of most unusual summers across the United States in years. In case you weren’t keeping score, let’s do a quick review. Hurricanes From mid-August through mid-September, we saw three remarkable and impactful hurricanes: Hilary, Idalia, and Lee. Tornadoes With 92 confirmed tornadoes, July saw
Read MoreIn 2007, we published an article listing the Top 11 Most Memorable Weather Events, which evolved from two similar articles on extreme weather published in 1999 and 2001. Since we are now nearly a quarter of a way through the 21st Century, we thought we would augment the list with 10 more extreme weather events
Read MoreFrom Farmers’ Almanac Weather Archive – Canadian Winter Weather Forecast 2011-2012 Get Ready for a Wet, Wild Winter in 2012! For the last several months, many of you have been emailing us, leaving comments on our articles, and asking us on our Facebook page, “What’s in store for the coming winter?” Not, at long last, the wait is over!
Read MoreFrom Farmers’ Almanac Weather Archive – Canadian Extended Winter Weather Forecast 2012-2013 Will Winter Return to Canada? After a year of unprecedented warmth, the great debate over whether or not Old Man Winter will return with a vengeance is on. Last winter much of Canada experienced yet another unseasonably warm season. Some locations in far northern Canada
Read MoreFrom Farmers’ Almanac Weather Archive – Canadian Extended Winter Weather Forecast 2013-2014 After the unusually warm and snowless winter of 2011–2012, many people questioned if winter could make a comeback. Well it did. Last winter was cold and especially snowy. So what’s in store for this winter? The “Days of Shivery” are back! For 2013–2014, we are
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