According 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

From 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!

From 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

From 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

From the Farmers’ Almanac Weather Archive – Extended US 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

From Farmers’ Almanac Weather Archive – Canadian Extended Winter Weather Forecast 2014-2015 What’s In Store For 2015? Read Our Canadian Winter Forecast. According to our long-range formula, the winter of 2014–15 will see below-normal temperatures for about three-quarters of the country. A large zone of very cold temperatures will be found from east of the Continental Divide

From The Farmers’ Almanac Weather Archive –Extended US Winter Weather Forecast 2014-2015 More Shivery And Shovelry! Read Our 2015 Winter Forecast. After the frigid, bitterly cold, and snow-filled winter last year, many of you are wondering just what this winter might bring. Could it possibly be as bad as last? According to the 2015 edition

From Farmers’ Almanac Weather Archive – Canadian Extended Winter Weather Forecast 2015-2016 What’s in store for winter 2015-2016?Get. Ready. “Depending on where you live and how much cold and snow you like, we have bad news and we have good news. . . .”– Editor Peter Geiger, Philom. According to the Canadian Farmers’ Almanac, the winter of 2015–2016

From the Farmers’ Almanac Weather Archive – Extended US Winter Weather Forecast 2015-2016 What’s in store for winter 2015-2016?Get. Ready. Depending on where you live and how much cold and snow you like, we have bad news and we have good news. . . .”– Editor Peter Geiger, Philom. According to the Farmers’ Almanac, the

From Farmers’ Almanac Weather Archive – Canadian Extended Winter Weather Forecast 2016-2017 The Canadian Farmers’ Almanac’s long-range predictions forewarn of a colder-than-normal winter for three-quarters of Canada. Exceptionally cold–if not downright frigid–winter weather will predominate over parts of the Rockies, Prairies, Great Lakes, Ontario, Quebec, and the Maritime Provinces. Newfoundland and Labrador are expected to be cold and flaky.