RE: Farmers Almanac

[Mahaffey-Family]

 If you rely on the Farmers Almanac Winter isn t over yet............
 
 It predicted this last storm.  This was the last blizzard  but, there will be  a few days in March with snow.[]
 
   You can look on line at   www.almanac.com/weather

[birol]

 Mahaffey-Family
How come is this Almanac not guessing the weather for Canada ? Do we not exist ? sheeees.
 
 

[tlhdoc]

 birol

 

ORIGINAL:  birol
 
 How come is this Almanac not guessing the weather for Canada ? Do we not exist ? sheeees.
 
 
 

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[pinhi18]

 Mahaffey-Family

 Birol,
 
 
 It will be cold and snowy in Canada.  Just like last year and the year before ect...[]  This only qustion is how cold and how much snow[]

[birol]

 Mahaffey-Family
Ok I confess !!!! When we immigrated to Canada, I never thought it would be like this. Can somebody in FL take us under their wings ? In exchange for using your PU and swimming pool drinking all your beer eating all your food and sleeping in your house, you will have the luxury of having a 4 people family to chat anytime you want  [8D][8D][8D][8D]
 
 Chatting hours will be strictly between 9:50 am to 10:00 am and 16:00 to 16:30 pm ! We are a busy family and don t want to distract our family functions for intruding strangers [][][]

[AustinBoston]

 Mahaffey-Family
The most remarkable story of an Old Farmers Almanac weather forecast was for July of 1816.
 
 At the end of December of 1815, the author (Robert B. Thomas) had put together his almanac and sent it off to the printer.  He was sick, and he was going to spend some time in bed to recover.
 
 At that time, there were hundreds of almanacs published in the new country.  There were more than a hundred in New England, where the Old Farmer s Almanac was published.
 
 Well, the printer came back to complain that he had forgotten the July forecast.  Mr. Thomas simply refused to get out of bed to write a July forecast.  " Just stick anything in there, it really doesn t matter."
 
 This sent the printer off in a rage.  He would do exactly that.  He would stick anything in there.  He copied the December forecast, and used that for July.  That would finish off the rude, lazy Mr. Thomas.
 
 What neither of them knew was that there had been a massive volcanic eruption in the south pacific that fall, one of the biggest in recorded history (the name of the volcano escapes me now, but it ceased to exist after the eruption).  It played havoc with the weather.
 
 The spring was unusually cold, with frosts into early June in Boston.  Normally, the last frost is in early May, so this was a month late.  But by mid June, temps had reached 90, and folks figured the cold weather was long past.  Then there was another frost, and a dusting of snow.  People spoke of a real famine, because it was way too late to get crops in and harvested by winter.  It frosted on July 4, as predicted by just one almanac - Robert B. Thomas  Old Farmer s Almanac - with the " borrowed"  December forecast.  It snowed on July 10 - again part of the forecast.
 
 The cold continued into August, and September, but by then the printer s revenge had failed miserably.
 
 1816 is unofficially known by many historians as " The Year There Was No Summer" .  It frosted in every month of the year in Boston, and temperatures were abnormally cold all over the settled parts of the U.S. and Western Europe.  There was widespread starvation and massive crop failures.  With no knowledge of what the weather had been like that summer in the lands to the west, the cry " Go West Young Man"  struck a chord with a lot of people, and the real push for westward expansion began.
 
 So what if Mr. Thomas got the later forecasts wrong - anyone who could predict a snowstorm in July - and get it right - had to have something going for him.  Today, all of those other almanacs are gone.  Only the Robert B. Thomas Old Farmer s Almanac remains, all because the printer didn t like his attitude and decided to get revenge.
 
 Austin

[ThunderRock]

 Mahaffey-Family
Good story by A_B....the almanac got only 1/2 of our forecast right for this winter........." another mild winter, not much snow"
 They got the " snow"  part right [] but the " mild"  ........[: (][][][]
 Yesterday, today & tomorrow - finally ABOVE freezing...Saturday, back to the same old.....................[>:]
 
 
 BTW, just checked on the " rest of the forecast" ........can t wait to compare more notes on this!

[Mahaffey-Family]

 Mahaffey-Family
As you can now see the this doesn t know its left from the right.  Snow is here again.