NASHVILLE, Tenn. (RFD News) — With fall underway, the Old Farmer’s Almanac is offering an early look at what the coming winter could bring.
Editor-in-Chief Carol Connare expects conditions to resemble the winter of 1997, particularly during the first half of the season.
“People will remember if that was a year they were around and they were paying attention to the weather, it was very stormy. Again, that first half of the winter brought walloping storms if there was going to be of any size.”
Connare added that higher-elevation areas could also see more solid precipitation compared with lower elevations.
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