"The weather formula used by the 188-year-old Farmers' Almanac is a closely guarded secret. Prepared two years in advance, the forecasts are based on sunspots, the position of the planets and tidal action of the moon."
If forecasting weather is so easy, two years in advance no less, how come the daily weather person is OFTEN wrong?
Actually, you'd be suprised how much they are righton. It's around 90 percent. We just notice when they're wrong!
Mike
I didn't realize that "often" is defined by only maybe 5-10 times an ENTIRE YEAR.
Weather forecasters are very accurate.
Did the almanac predict this unusually cool summer in North America and Europe?
As others have pointed out the weatherman is remarkably right most of the time. Besides that, the almanac is predicting a seasonal average, the weatherman is predicting a binary (as far as most people see it) set, good or bad. Averages give a lot more leeway.