Did last winter drive you absolutely insane? If so, you're not alone. Most people were bombarded with extreme cold and psychotic amounts of snow from October through April of last year (that's more than 6 months, if you're counting), and by the end of it, most of us weren't sure if we were going to survive till summer. In the middle of April, when my state was bombarded with another foot of snow, I stayed inside all day and cried. (You think I'm kidding? Ask my roommates.)
If you already find yourself dreading what's in store for us this year, you'll be happy to know that the stupidly stupid winter of 2010 might not be repeated – at least according to the newest addition of the Farmer's Almanac.
"Overall, it looks like it's going to be a kinder and gentler winter, especially in the areas that had a rough winter last year," Sandi Duncan, the managing editor, recently told MNN.com. Even thought it will still be chillier than normal, and New England will receive a "cold slap in the face" (sounds awesome), the Almanac reports that the massive amounts of snow and bone chilling temperatures of last year will most assuredly ease a bit.
While conventional meteorologists don't exactly agree with the Almanic's way of predicting the weather (they use "a secret mathematical formula using the position of the planets, tidal action of the moon and sunspots"), the editors of the book claim that they have an 80 – 85 percent level of accuracy.
Luckily, NOAA's Climate Prediction Center is also predicting a warmer winter, although they're predicting "a warmer-than-normal winter for the mid-Atlantic and Southeast and colder-than-normal weather in the Northwest," which is just the opposite of what the editors of the Maine-based Farmer's Almanac are saying.
If you really care about this sort of thing, you should write these predications down and see if the moon and the tides out-forecast complicated science equipment. As for me, I'm just happy I won't be repeating last year's cold weather crying fest.
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