The start of September marked meteorological fall and Sept. 22 at 6:43 a.m. will mark the 2024 fall equinox. That has winter on the minds of many even though hot weather is still in the forecast.
With close to an 80 per cent accuracy rating, the Old Farmer’s Almanac is something many people turn to for a long-range forecast to get an idea of what winter might bring.
Editor Carol Connare said to land on their weather predictions, they rely on something she called sun science.
“Our founder Robert B Thomas was an astronomer and for many years keeping track of magnetic storms on the sun, they’re 11-year cycles and we just entered cycle 26,” she said.
Connare says that means their weather predictions are based on data over all of those cycles.
“And we see what is similar, maybe a year eight with a certain week. What are the …