'Woolly Worms' predict a Severe NA Winter

[QRTRHRS]

My question is, why do the wooly worms cross the road?

 

[Garandman]

//Ladies and Gentlemen... Prepare your SNOW-WEAPONS!!!

Last winter our ski place (average snowfall 120") got 27" of snow.

Boston got 30", which is about one third below normal. Second-worst winter for snow in the Northeast since WWII, apparently.

So color me skeptical.

 

[k0ua]

My question is, why do the wooly worms cross the road?

to commit suicide.

 

[Mendonsy]

My question is, why do the wooly worms cross the road?

To attract chickens??

 

[/pine]

"Wooly Bears" (actually a caterpillar) are notorious liars...or they are all females as they continually change their minds...err or brown bands...!

 

[Thomas]

Seen very few wooly bears this year as I did last year which turn out to be above normal winter,fingers cross for another such winter.

 

[Tomtint]

My weather predictor is the local squirrel population. Their tails are very bushy this year. Last time they were that fluffy we got 10' of snow in 5 weeks.

 

[oosik]

Last winter here in NE WA state we had one snow fall where I decided I'd go out and rear blade the driveway. The tractor tires pushed the little bit of snow right into the mud. It was a lost cause - I never bladed the driveway, even once, last winter. Old Farmers Almanac says our area will have a normal winter this year. Whatever a "normal" winter is supposed to be. We haven't had a normal winter in the last ten years - every one has be weird, in one way or another.

 

[Steave]

I still just use the old weather rock. If it's wet that means it's rainy. If it has ice that means it's cold. If it has snow on it that means holiday because everything in GA shuts down. :drink: So far we've got everybody fooled that there's no driving in the snow so can't go to work today. Fishing OK but work no no can do.

 

[oldpilgrim]

If you suspend a little weather rock on a string, it will also tell you if it's windy.