It's the end of a hot and dry summer....so I thought I'd cool us off with a winter forecast---
According to the new issue of Farmers Almanac for USA---

If you live in New England---"you'll get a cold slap in the face".

Upper Midwest and Great Lakes area---"are expected to get the piles of snow that'll be lacking elsewhere."

Rest of USA---"colder than normal but overall a kinder and gentler winter than last year."

Oh boy! Can't wait... :hunf:

All I can say is that I'm heading back to Vermont!

:mrgreen: We only go for foliage visits in the Fall and to do a little genealogy and meet up with some very shirt tail relatives in the little town of Jeffersonville. Anybody on here from that neck of the woods who could give me a heads up on the upcoming fall colors?

After 4.5 feet of snow in Washington, DC where no one knows how to drive in rain much less snow. I'll gladly take cold and nooooooooo snooooooow!

Oh, NO!!! A kinder and gentler winter than last year?? We very LITTLE snow last year -- I look forward to 2-3 feet of snow!!!

****If you live in New England---"you'll get a cold slap in the face".****


Obviously the people who wrote that almanac haven't spent a winter in La Pine Oregon. :lol: :lol:

We have had enough moisture falling from the sky this year!!!! We don't need any more.....especially the stuff we have to shovel!

I am all for a kinder gentler winter. Only reason it is one of my favorite times of the years I do not do outside in the winter so have more quilting time.

a cold slap in the face, with rain means ice
yuck!

Yup, read that myself in today's newspaper. Am looking forward to the cold slap; but hope it doesn't last long. Paper said the other day, we have had the warmest Maine summer in over 100 yrs. Just not normal for us.

Gee thanks for that!!! I am going to make the most of these HOT days while they are here!!!!!

Chasing Hawk
I love your avatar quote. :thumbup:

Can't wait for that "Slap"

Michigan winters are never fun anyways!

:) thanks

For me, anything is better than the summer we had. I was ready to SCREAM!!!!!!!! :D

Goody, another snowy Winter!

Snow means, sewing and sewing and sewing. Quilt after quilt after quilt. yessssssss.

Amen to that!! We had more than our share last winter!! We are due to have a warmer lighter winter!! No snow or ice and I would be ecstatic!

I'm going to hold my opinion on the Farmer's Almanac until after I see what the acorns are like when they fall here in Texas.

WOW i had better start "stocking up" for the winter! Must go fabric shopping

Anybody want the snow that os to come my way.

Thanks I live about 2 miles from Lake Erie.

Just what we need again alot of that yucky white stuff. We had our last year.

Here in central Texas, we rarely get snow. Having grown up in New England, I miss the snow - hate the summers here. I would love a "slap in the face".

Hi Cleveland Gal,
You don't think we'll get any snow in late Sept do you? We're going to be visiting family in Euclid until 1st week in Oct. Please, please, please no snow!

We had plenty of snow last year! I was hoping for less this year! Hopefully its wrong!

Snow and ice won't bother me, I retired June 2nd. Last 10 years we have had 2 4 wheel drive trucks, bring it on. We don't normally get much snow, some ice and yes, 4 x 4s do better on ice than not having it.
I don't how much snow and ice we get or don't get. I'm looking forward to cold temp.s

I am right there with you on this one! lol

Bring on the cooler weather!

We didn't have much of a winter this last year, until spring, then we had 2 weeks of freezing weather, but no rain or snow to speak of this last winter, so I do hope we'll have a slightly wetter one.

Can't wait love cold weather

Granny K

I love the cold weather and the snow. I hope we don't have less than last year, I want more!!!!!!

And Cleveland OH uses the Woolybear caterpillars......lol

I would say mid Sept to Oct, maybe little earlier further north. I am south eastern NH.

I hope it is a dryer and warmer winter in the Rio Grande Valley this year. Last year was not so nice.

I don't like winter! I can deal with the heat any day, but once it gets cold, it goes to the bone. Winter consists of lots of 4 letter dirty words...cold, snow, wind, icey....

I'm a born and bred FL girl who has never acclimated to colder temp's, even tho I moved away in the early 70's. My ancestry runs too deep in FL!

My little 200 year old cottage in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mtns. has 14" thick homemade brick walls that are so porous and a non-working, original kitchen fireplace. It rarely gets above 67° in here even with the heat pump running 24/7 if the temps are below 30° or so. I've learned to layer, wear shoes every minute (LOVE going barefoot!), and do my handquilting all winter in a hoop with the quilt spread over me. My bed has two quilts, one with a wool batting which I adore. It would be nice not to have FEET of snow this year as we did last year, which makes it impassable down my ½ mile gravel drive. 30 years of Texas living didn’t leave me well prepared for this!

Jan in VA

We can send you ours.

I want lots of snow days so I can stay home from work and quilt!! :-D :-D

Wow that is some refreshing information! Thanks! I was worried that we would be buried in snow all winter.