Seasonal & Holidays

Old Farmer’s Almanac Says A Cold Winter Is Ahead In Wisconsin

A cold and dry winter is in store for Wisconsin, the publication said. The season will be long and brutally cold for the country.

Wisconsin's winter will be cold, dry but with the capacity for lots of snow in the northeastern side.
Wisconsin's winter will be cold, dry but with the capacity for lots of snow in the northeastern side. (Scott Anderson/Patch)

WISCONSIN — 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. It's going to be a mix of cold, dry and wet in Wisconsin, the publication said.

“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 Wisconsin:

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Most of Wisconsin will have a cold and try winter, except for the northeastern side from Sheboygan to Green Bay and further north. The the super cold of the coming winter will also bring lots of snow in some places, the almanac said

The almanac also predicts several storms during the winter with lots of snowfall.

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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.
  • A combination of super-cold temperatures and heavy snowfall is expected in areas from New England to the Ohio Valley to northern portions of the Deep South and southeast New Mexico.

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.

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