What do farmers know about snow?

It is with great anticipation that we have waited for the Farmers' Almanac to give us the goods on what our winter will look like. Truth be told, all we care about is how much snow we will get to play in. Focus on the last sentence below – wet in the winter translates to snow in the mountains. We were spoiled last winter with ridiculous amounts of snow, and it looks as though we are in for more of the same – yeaaaah!

Courtesy of the Farmer's Almanac:

For the winter of 2011–12, the Canadian Farmers’ Almanac is forecasting unusually cold and stormy weather. For some parts of the country that means a frigid climate; while for others, it’s lots of rain and snow.

This will be a winter of “clime and punishment.” We are forecasting the upcoming winter will be cold to very cold, from Alberta east across Saskatchewan and Manitoba into western Ontario. Meanwhile, we predict temperatures will average above normal for much of Nova Scotia and, possibly, southern New Brunswick. Near-normal temperatures are expected elsewhere. A very active storm track will bring copious precipitation through the Great Lakes into central and eastern Ontario, Quebec, and much of the Maritimes. Another active storm track over the Pacific Ocean will guide systems into southern and central British Columbia and western Alberta, giving them a wetter-than-normal winter.

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