Farmers’ Almanac Crushes Dreams Of Global Warming Zealots With ‘ICE COLD WINTER’ Forecast

dailycaller.com ^ | 8/17/2016 | Eric Owens

[rktman]

Using their “almost 200 century-old formula,” the editors of the “time-tested and generation-approved” Farmers’ Almanac are predicting a frost-bound, Siberian winter for two-thirds of the United States

“Return of the Ice Cold Winter” is how the 2017 edition of the famed annual publication characterizes the impending chill, according to a press release.

“Winter is coming!” the Farmers’ Almanac editors announce, as they advise that this year might be a good time to “splurge on a snow blower.” (RELATED: US College Professor Demands Imprisonment For Climate-Change Deniers)

The “amazingly accurate” long-range forecast — starting on page 65 — covers September 2016 through December 2017. It prognosticates “exceptionally cold conditions” for several regions of the United States including the Midwest, the Great Lakes and Middle Atlantic regions, the Ohio Valley, and the entire Northeast.

“February is the month to really be ready for cold conditions,” Farmers’ Almanac editor Peter Geiger warns. “According to our long-range outlook, many places will see downright frigid temperatures this month, some as low as 40 degrees below zero!” (RELATED: NOT THE GINGERS! Global Warming Zealots Now Claim Redheads Will Soon Disappear)

Ski enthusiasts in New England will be ecstatic with mounds of snowfall as well — though also, presumably, pretty cold.

[reformedliberal]

Up here in Wi, we normally have one warm-ish winter to two normal or below normal ones. Last winter was warm-ish. We’re due.

[SkyDancer]

Global warming will be blamed.

[Pearls Before Swine]

Amazingly accurate. But it ain't "settled science" is it?

Not since it predicts FUTURE weather, just like the climate change people do. Only it's shorter range and more specific.

[Ticonderoga34]

It doesn’t matter how cold it gets this winter, the media will say, “it’s the warmest winter on record”.

The media just makes up its own reality as it goes along.

[Berosus]

Since moving to Kentucky, I have seen more blondes and redheads than in any other state where I’ve lived. I figure it’s because a lot of the original settlers in the 18th century had Scottish and Irish ancestry. Therefore I don’t think the “Gingers” are endangered here, even if they are elsewhere.

[upchuck]

Thanks for linking to the print version and banishing all the ads.

[IYAS9YAS]

We had the warmest winter in 100 years and snowfall was way below normal.

To be fair, it did qualify those statements with "much" and "most."

[Justa]

Sunspots + latitude of sunspots is their secret formula.

Sunspots = strong solar plasma convection currents which = intensity of output.

Sunspot latitude = strength of plasma longitudinal currents. When longitudinal currents are strong sunspots are frequent and at high latitudes as well as low. When the current weakens sunspots occur infrequently near the equator.

There's a cause for this which is the wobble in the sun due to planetary alignment. Less wobble = less plasma current and less sunspots.

The sun is going into a near-circular wobble pattern for the next 20+ years. So, few then no sunspots until about 2035.

Sunspots may cease for an extended period by 2020. If that happens a Maunder Minimum type cold will follow.

[rdl6989]

Thanks, very good info.

[Noumenon]

Roger that. My reconditioned home will be heated primarily by wood (and I’ve got plenty of it). My emergency generator is dual fuel.

[Rebelbase]

“Wow. 200 centuries old. Really?”

It was called the Hunter-Farmer Almanac back then.

[Jaded]

I’d like an actual winter this year.

[sarasota]

I’ll settle for “normal”. Year before last was brutal.

[Terry L Smith]

Climate science ...pfui!

Anybody that has lived anywhere where it gets cold in winter knows signs from nature that never seem to be wrong.

Example, As Fall comes on, have you been noticing the ‘bushiness’ of squirrels’ tails? Old non-scientific fact - their tails get bushier as winter comes, as compared to the rest of the seasons.

Have your dogs and cats started shedding their ‘summer coat’?

Have you noticed that your bird feeders are getting emptied more quickly by the birds, and/or by those little thieves called squirrels, with the bushy tails?

Has ‘the shift change’ started in your aviary visitors a little earlier in the season than normal?

All these things are signs of ‘one of those winters coming’, and you don’t have to be an accredited weather forecaster to notice them!!

[pfflier]

Everybody also knows that 70% of all photosynthesis takes place in the oceans. If the oceans don’t freeze, you didn’t know as much as you thought you did.

[WENDLE]

That is good for jobs. But everyone should have what ever option the want. I like wearing a sweater but that’s just me. I sure don’t want some damned government getting in my business, Do you?

[WENDLE]

I like actual scientific measurements and predictions based on computer models and education, not sooth saying. I can’t believe anyone actually pays money for an almanac for a weather forecast. . Do they look at their astrology in there?

[Pollster1]

http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/

Did someone alert NASA? They will need extra staff to “adjust” this winter’s data and maintain the illusion of global warming. It’s time for them to start hiring and training experts to massage the raw data.

[Ben Ficklin]

Yes, there is more to it, but I didn't want to write a paper on the subject.

First off, whatever happens in our hemisphere is offset with what happens in the southern hemisphere.

By its name, photosynthesis is photothophic, by degree, and depends on the length of day. So, even photosynthesis in the ocean will be curtailed as the days shorten. Especially where the oceans surface is covered by ice. And then you should consider that sunlight does not penetrate water very well.

Temperature also affects the process and changing temperature affects the process. For each 10 degrees C the water temp falls, the rate of the process is cut in half. The oceans surface temperature is affected by the air temperature. The oceans surface temperature is also affected by radiant heat from the sun which decreases as the sun sinks and the day shortens.