Predicting the year’s weather

[Mark Cowdrey]

Anyone have a link to info about using the weather conditions from midnight to midnight of January 1st to predict the weather for the whole year?

There may have been an SFJ artucle about it at one time.

Happy New Year all.

Mark

[Carl Russell]

Not exactly what you were looking for, but this is one that came up on Google.
http://www.almanac.com/topics/weather/weather-forecasts/predicting-weather

Another one http://www.rcn27.dial.pipex.com/cloudsrus/lore.html

I remember that article, but it seemed to me to have been related to Amish traditions, and used certain days throughout the year that would predict periods later in the year.

Sorry we can’t make it today…. too much going on here. Would love to make it down there sometime….. Have fun, and happy new year.

Carl

[karl t pfister]

Mark this is probably not what you’re looking for either but I always say, I’ll tell you what kind of winter it will be in April !

Hope you had a boat load of sleigh rides ! We got the snow just in time ,even with that snow we are bare ground again on south facing slopes and where the wind took our snow to Tim Buck Too ,that was a heat wave. I remember another year we lost the snow real fast ,but don’t remember which one ,this is my 30/th year of doin sleigh rides It certainly has has gone by faster than I was noticing .Happy New Year everyone Karl

[Mark Cowdrey]

Karl, that’s a good one. Another of my favorite winter sayings is that you should have half your wood and half your hay left on Groundhog (Candlemas) day, or, from Wikipedia:

In Scotland the tradition may also derive from an English poem:

As the light grows longer
The cold grows stronger
If Candlemas be fair and bright
Winter will have another flight
If Candlemas be cloud and rain
Winter will be gone and not come again
A farmer should on Candlemas day
Have half his corn and half his hay
On Candlemas day if thorns hang a drop
You can be sure of a good pea crop

I did 10 rides between Christmas and New years, the last one on NY eve featured some runner squawking going over the gravel! I shelled out quite a nut on advertising this year so between that & insurance I am about half way to showing a profit. We’ll see….
My 9 yo is going good though my 5 yo doesn’t seem to think he can get down and dig on the hills. He is definitely breathing harder when I rest them. My 9 yo was like that when he was younger. Makes me wonder if it is just a maturity thing or whether it’s collar fit, line adjustment, conditioning, poor driving, …
Took them on a 5 mile road trip w the mechanical brake on the Pioneer forecart set in the first notch today and he stuck with it pretty well. The more miles the better the horse I guess.

Let’s hope for more snow.
Mark

[Mark Cowdrey]

So, have you got half your wood & half your hay left? Hope so. I’m pretty close.
Mark

[mitchmaine]

hi mark,
penny retired and is home all the time, so the place is very warm. looks like we will have the wood we need tho’.we can always borrow from the sugarhouse if we have too.
we are sitting on a small mountain of hay. i have to guess everyone else is too, cause no one is calling. i’d like to move some of that.
i like an open winter for skidding wood. much easier chopping, and i’m hoping that any pest wintering over in the garden soil are freezing their butts off. in the end, you get what you get, like it or not. hoping you get your snow.
mitch

[Ed Thayer]

No predictions here, just hoping the sap will flow for more than two weeks like last year. Plenty of wood left but may need hay before first crop. Wish you were closer Mitch.

Ed

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