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Three longtime TV meteorologists share their favorite folklore predictors, but lean on science when forecasting winter weather in Indiana. Winter forecasts: Woolly worms, leaves, persimmon seeds ...
A winner is chosen after many heats, and for its prowess, it gets to make the official winter weather forecast based on the color blocking of its 13 brown and black segments, correlating each ...
Canadian and U.S. folklore holds that the relative amounts of brown and black hair on a larva indicate the severity of the coming winter. It is believed that if a Pyrrharctia isabella 's brown band is wide, winter weather will be mild, and if the brown band is narrow, the winter will be severe. In a variation of this story, the color of stripes ...
Many species have "hairy" caterpillars that are popularly known as woolly bears or woolly worms. The scientific name Arctiinae refers to this hairiness (Gk. αρκτος = a bear). Some species within the Arctiinae have the word "tussock"' in their common names because they have been misidentified as members of the Lymantriinae subfamily based ...
The Old Farmer's Almanac has been providing extended weather forecasts to help readers prepare for the upcoming winter since 1972. Today, their predictions are compared to 30-year weather averages ...
The Woolly Worm Festival is an event held each October since 1978 in Banner Elk and Avery County, North Carolina. [1] The festival celebrates the supposed weather-predicting abilities of the woolly worm, also called "woolly bear" which is a caterpillar or larvae of the isabella tiger moth .
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The 2024–25 North American winter is the current winter season that is ongoing across the continent of North America.The most notable events of the season so far have included a powerful bomb cyclone that impacted the West Coast of the United States in mid-to-late November, as well as a severe lake-effect snowstorm in the Great Lakes later that month.