Jul 14 2009
June to August forecasting from The Old Farmer’s Amanac
The Old Farmer’s Almanac for 2009 was produced last year and released in October of 2008. It is amazing the forecast prediction for this time period for New England was fairly accurate with regards to the temperature; they were off in the rain department.
For the period June through August – it will be hotter than normal in Florida and from New Mexico northeastward through the Great Lakes. Temperatures elsewhere will be below normal, on average. Rainfall will be above normal in Florida, the coastal Southeast, from parts of Colorado to Wisconsin, in much of California, and from Nevada to the western Dakotas. Rainfall elsewhere will be below normal.
If you were to look at the weather maps for the past month, we were entrenched in a pattern that circulated water in from the ocean and pulled cooler air down from Canada, thus resulting in our below normal average temperature, however, this also brought us rain, which produced above average rain fall. For a publication that is produced many months in advance, they still do a good job at predicting weather patterns that have some accuracy to them. We will look at the August / September time frame to see how the Old Farmer’s Almanac forecasts compare to the statistics for the period.
