Pig spleen forecast predicts ND mean weather ahead

[bijou]

RURAL PINGREE, N.D. - It's not the most traditional way of predicting the weather, but one Jamestown man boasts a near-perfect record stretching back decades.

Pig spleens and their height and width are how Norbert Schulz predicts the snowy season in North Dakota. This year, Schulz offered the same advice as years before: Buy a new shovel.

"It's going to be real nice here for a while; then she's going to turn real mean," Schulz said sizing up the spleen in his rural butcher shop. ...

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Hmm, not quite as cute as a groundhog.

[IassaFTots]

It's winter in North Dakota.  Isn't it always mean???

[Eupher]

It's winter in North Dakota.  Isn't it always mean???

'Zackly. Pig spleens ain't got nothin' to do with it. When them things freeze up, you know it's COLD.

[cmypay]

Well, around here (NC), the farmers are all sayin to prepare for a rough winter.  Apparently, lots of wooly worms out very early, July this year, means a really cold winter.  I stepped on as many as I could, but they tell me that makes no difference. 

[Eupher]

Well, around here (NC), the farmers are all sayin to prepare for a rough winter.  Apparently, lots of wooly worms out very early, July this year, means a really cold winter.  I stepped on as many as I could, but they tell me that makes no difference. 

debk was saying the same thing.

WTF do the wooly worms know that we don't????

[IassaFTots]

debk was saying the same thing.

WTF do the wooly worms know that we don't????

I heard some thing about if you have a high yield of acorns, that means a rough winter.  Last year we had a rough winter, but no high yield of acorns.  Maybe y'alls wooly worms came over and ate our acorns last year? 

Hell I don't know.

[Eupher]

I heard some thing about if you have a high yield of acorns, that means a rough winter.  Last year we had a rough winter, but no high yield of acorns.  Maybe y'alls wooly worms came over and ate our acorns last year? 

Hell I don't know.

All I know is we've had damn near two months of just about picture-perfect weather. Sunny, warm, a shade of breeze, a tiny bit of rain not enough to even mention.

When the hell is the bottom gonna fall out????

[IassaFTots]

All I know is we've had damn near two months of just about picture-perfect weather. Sunny, warm, a shade of breeze, a tiny bit of rain not enough to even mention.

When the hell is the bottom gonna fall out????

Yeah,about that, me too.  And I saw my forecast for next week.  Looks like right about then. But, that is the price we pay for living in a Red State.  Or Less Purple than Blue.   

[littlelamb]

I am glad I am not in really cold area people around here do not know how to drive in snow. When we get a inch or more they close school. What pussies

[IassaFTots]

Yeah,about that, me too.  And I saw my forecast for next week.  Looks like right about then. But, that is the price we pay for living in a Red State.  Or Less Purple than Blue.   

Whoopsie Daisy!  I meant less blue than purple......

[NHSparky]

Pretty much all the home-folksy predictions (including Farmer's Almanac) have been for average snow, but bitter cold.  Whee.

That to me says -30 instead of -10 or -15.

[IassaFTots]

Pretty much all the home-folksy predictions (including Farmer's Almanac) have been for average snow, but bitter cold.  Whee.

That to me says -30 instead of -10 or -15.

Brrrrrrr!  That says to me I love Texas!

[JohnnyReb]

Pretty much all the home-folksy predictions (including Farmer's Almanac) have been for average snow, but bitter cold.  Whee.

That to me says -30 instead of -10 or -15.

I can probably count on one hand the number of times it's been down to ZERO dgrees around here in my lifetime.

There was one week back in the mid 70's that the high for the week was 25 degrees...now that was cold winter weather for us.

[catsmtrods]

The only time in my life I could predict the weather was when I lived in So Calif. It will be the same tomorrow and next week as it is today.

[BlueStateSaint]

I heard some thing about if you have a high yield of acorns, that means a rough winter.  Last year we had a rough winter, but no high yield of acorns.  Maybe y'alls wooly worms came over and ate our acorns last year? 

Hell I don't know.

I was told by a deer biologist working for the NYS Department of Environmental Conservation that white oaks have a three-year cycle for acorn production.  Year 3 of that cycle is always the heavy one.  I'd hazard a guess and say that we're in Year 3 of that cycle.