Good news today! I'll give you a hint: It's not that I got 10,000 steps today. (Though that's certainly commendable.) It's that when I looked down on my lunchtime walk, I saw this guy. Do you know what makes him so handsome? His wide orange band. Which in Farmer's Almanac-type terms, means a MILD WINTER is on the way!
Finally. Some good news in 2020.
Not that I'll have anywhere to drive in the winter, really. But still.
And if you haven't "read the worm" before to predict winter, here's what you need to know about the woolly bear caterpillar—also called woolly worm—and their reputation of being able to forecast the coming winter weather.
If their rusty band is wide, then it will be a mild winter. The more black there is, the more severe the winter. This dude was definitely rusty!!
And don't pay attention at all to the orange and black fuzzy wuzzies you saw this summer. According to woolly worm watchers, there are two generations of worms each year. The first appear in June and July, and the second in September. The second generation worms are the “weather prophets.”
And is this all backed by science? Well, yes, experiments were done. Maybe a century ago, true. But that's how folklore gets started. I believe for its size, the wooley bear's prediction still holds more weight than that groundhog. But that's just my wishful thinking.
And we need that in 2020, don't we?
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