Two articles, two different forecasts for Tennessee
We’ve been revealing the different regions for this past week and today—with the official release of The 2021 Old Farmer’s Almanac edition—we can completely unveil our winter maps for all of the U.S. and Canada.
We are currently transitioning from Solar Cycle 24 to Solar Cycle 25. Cycle 24 was the smallest in more than 100 years and possibly the smallest since the Dalton Minimum in the early 1800s, while Cycle 25 is expected to also bring very low solar activity.
Although low levels of solar activity have historically been associated with cooler temperatures, on average, across Earth, we believe that rising temperature trends mean that the winter will not be extremely cold.
For the United States, we predict that recent warming trends will dominate in the eastern and northern parts of the United States in the coming winter, with below-normal average temperatures limited to the western portion of the nation. Most of Canada will have a cold and snowy winter. However, rising temperature trends mean that the winter will not bring extreme cold; instead, it will be closer to normal.
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WZTV) — While the official winter forecast from the FOX 17 Code Red Weather team hasn’t yet been released, local persimmon seeds are calling for a cold, snowy winter this year.
I have been a ham radio operator since around 1972, and so I tend to pay attention to the solar cycles. It affects radio wave propagation,with this last cycle,24, being the worst one we have ever had,from all reports. But this next one is not predicted to be similar,but from the people who are actually interest in this sort of thing,those who depend upon a lot of solar activity in order to be able to affect good radio propagation,they expect this next cycle to be either a normal cycle,or even a small bit more active.
ReplyDeleteI myself trust the people who study this issue closely more than I do the Farmers Almanac, who predict things like the sunspot cycles,based upon who got the writing assignment this year. Because if they are wrong,they have 11 years for everyone to forget about it. With everything going on right now, I don't think that anyone will be too worried about the Farmers Almanac missing the sunspot cycle prediction.
pigpen51
I'm in South Texas and although I don't ranch any longer, I still watch the weather closely. The Farmers Almanac forecasts beat the NOAA and Weather.gov hands down.
ReplyDeleteThis past summer was different, in a bad way. Maybe it was the solar activity. We have had dry summers in the past, but this one was different. This summer tried to kill all our trees, plants and shrubs. We have some old pecans, crepe Myrtle, roses and other shrub-type plants. They all took a beating this summer. One fig has already been discarded, the roses were hit hard, but I think will live, three of our pecans may not come back next spring. We will be keeping our fingers crossed. Today, I noticed one of the Myrtles has already lost it's leaves, which is early. Next spring we may be burning lots of dead plant material.