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Farmers’ Almanac Releases Summer 2025 Weather Forecast, Warns Temperatures To Continue Breaking Record Highs
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Lewiston, ME: Astronomically speaking, summer officially begins on June 20, 2025 with the summer solstice, but according to the Farmers’ Almanac Summer Weather Forecast, temperatures may rise before then. Excessive Heat Warning The Farmers’ Almanac forecasts warmer-than-average summer weather for most of the nation, warning that “The Heat is On!” This is not…
20 Signs Of Bad Winter Coming
Before there were weather apps for your smartphone, people looked to nature to prepare for what’s to come. What signs of a hard winter are you already seeing in your backyard?
Review Of Canadian Winter Weather 2023-2024
Last year, Canada had its warmest winter on record by a wide margin, 1.1°C warmer than the previous record set in 2009-2010, based on preliminary data from Environment Canada. The December 2023–February 2024 global surface temperature was the warmest December–February period in the 175-year record, 1.36°C above the 20th-century average of 12.1°C. The past ten December–February periods…
Review Of Winter Weather 2023-2024
Winter weather 2023-2024, meteorologically speaking (December 2023-February 2024), ranked as the warmest on record for the contiguous US, with the average temperature hovering around 37.6°F, which is 5.4°F more than usual. North Dakota, Minnesota, Iowa, Wisconsin, Michigan, New York, Vermont, and New Hampshire all had their warmest winter on record, while an additional 26 states…
What Is Lake Effect Snow? One Expert Explains
Lake effect snow occurs when dry, below-freezing air moves over relatively warm water. Lake water and the air directly above it warms and humidifies the colder air, which rises and cools, causing the humidity to condense into clouds and then fall as snow. During this process, the wind acts as a conveyor belt of humidity…
Weather Lore Quotes
- Red sky at night- sailor’s delight, Red sky in morning- sailor’s warning.
- Rain before 7- clear before 11. Rain after 7- rain all day.
- Step on a spider and it will surely bring rain.
- Dog days bring the greatest heat and the most thunderstorms of the year.
- Crickets and tree toads singing loudly in the evening indicate it will be fair and hot.
- When robins call loudly and steadily, it will rain soon.
- If it rains on the first Sunday of the month, every Sunday except one usually will be wet.
- Six weeks after you hear crickets chirp in the summer, look for frost.
- When the ants close up their hills, we will have rain in a day or two; if the ant hills are open, it will continue to be fair.
- Winter fog will freeze a dog; summer fog will roast a hog.
- Three foggy mornings and then a rain.
- A dewy morning brings a good haying day.
- A heavy dew at night promises a good day to follow.
- Still, moist and camp hot air means rain on the way.
- No dew in the morning indicates rain.
- Low banks of haze in the south indicate rain.
- When leaves turn over, it’s a sign of rain.
- Variable wind indicates a coming storm.
You know it’s going to rain when…
- Bees stay close to their hives
- Swallows fly close to the ground
- Flies and gnats bite in vain
- Birds stay perched on telephone wires
- Your corn or badly healed broken bone talks to you
- Sound travels far and wide
- If ants build lots of walls, rain will surly fall
- A cow scratches its ear
- Leaves show their backs
- Sheep collect and huddle
- Large halo ‘round the moon
