The Old Farmer’s Almanac is predicting northwestern Ontario will be not so cold, but snow this winter.
The Almanac has been making weather predictions since it was first published in 1972.
Managing Editor Jack Burnette says they have been generally very accurate.
“Last year we were between 71 and 72 (per cent) in Canada. over 80 in the US. So sometimes it goes up sometimes goes down,” says Brunette.
Burnette says they use the same three pieces of information to determine weather forecasts as used by their founder Robert B. Thomas in 1792.
“They are meteorology which is the local weather. The second thing is climatology, long-range long term weather trends, and the third thing is solar science and solar radiation.
Burnette says their predictions are always a topic of discussion, but notes weather makes up only a small part of the almanac.
It’s like maybe 10 per cent of an Old Farmer’s Almanac but it has everything about gardening, food, history, articles on vision because it’s 2020.”
There’s also an article about the history of beer.
There are also two versions of the almanac in North America with separate Canadian and American books available.
