Old Farmer's Almanac Says A Snowy Winter Is Ahead In Connecticut

CONNECTICUT — The Old Farmer's Almanac says a "season of shivers" with brutally cold temperatures and lots of snow awaits much of the United States this winter. In Connecticut, xxx.

"This coming winter could well be one of the longest and coldest that we’ve seen in years," Janice Stillman, editor of The Old Farmer’s Almanac, said in a news release.

In our neck of the woods, a combination of super-cold temperatures and heavy snowfall is expected in areas from New England to the Ohio Valley. The Almanac is even calling for the cold and snow to carry over into northern portions of the Deep South and southeast New Mexico.

Across America:

• The Pacific Coast and parts of the Southwest will be spared the frigid cold, but also will remain relatively dry.

• Temperatures are expected to be near normal, but abundant snowfall and frequent storms are forecast from eastern Montana southward through the western halves of the Dakotas and northeastern Colorado.

• Cold, relatively dry weather is forecast for the Upper Midwest, except for an area around Lake Michigan that could see heavy snowfall.

The Old Farmer's Almanac is published by Yankee Publishing Inc., an employee-owned company based in Dublin, New Hampshire. The publication has been making weather forecasts for 230 years and claims an 80 percent accuracy rate.

Meanwhile, over at the competition, the Farmers' Almanac winter 2021-22 forecast calls for the winter misery to begin after the first of the year. Storms along the Atlantic Seaboard in January will lead to long stretches of rain, snow, sleet, and ice. February will be milder, the Farmers' Almanac is predicting, but batten down your hatches for a "whopper" of a storm to wrap up the winter later in March.