Snowy Winter Ahead?

[alleycat]

Originally Posted by Starwalker Fallen Angel

That Stallion has STALLION PANEL STEEL fence and hot wires to keep him from even touching it. The ladies are safe.

Sounds like my high school years . . .

:-(

[AlisonL]

Originally Posted by Starwalker Fallen Angel

This will give you an idea HOW determined she is. She's part SILKIE. Broodiest birds on earth.

I used to have Silkie chickens and they are the best mothers. And they will sit on anything. Had one sitting on a golf ball. She was desparate to hatch it. LOL

Haven't noticed much changes in animal behaviors here. They are saying a warmer, but snowier winter for us this year.
I want a green, er brown, winter.

[Starwalker Fallen Angel]

Last night after freezing my bottom off. I took the AC unit outta the window in my Bedroom. Locked that window up tight and had to turn the space heater on to shower. I ain't turning the central heat on until it gets freezing outside. It almost did.

[TheShadow]

We are having an EXTREME acorn year at my house. It's raining acorns practically. It seems like they are that way every couple of years. It's supposed to be a sign of a hard winter coming, but I think it might just be the tree species.... You don't want to get hit on the head by those things. They are huge and falling from about 40-50 feet. OUCH!

[gemkeeper]

Originally Posted by TheShadow

We are having an EXTREME acorn year at my house. It's raining acorns practically. It seems like they are that way every couple of years. It's supposed to be a sign of a hard winter coming, but I think it might just be the tree species.... You don't want to get hit on the head by those things. They are huge and falling from about 40-50 feet. OUCH!

Just about every oak species will only produce a bumper crop of acorns every other year or so. It takes a tremendous amount of nutrient storage within the oak to produce its acorns. In good soil and adequate rain, a tree may have two years in succession with a lot of acorns, but generally it will be even every 4 or 5 years to put out those head bombers.

An oak tree, also, won't start producing fruit until it is at least 20 years old. It takes that long for the tree to become strong enough and to be established enough to give up the nutrients stored to start producing. Some oaks may be 30 or 40 years old before they start producing their fruit.

Considering our dry weather this year, your oaks must have had quite a reserve of nutrients to produce so heavily, Shadow. Enjoy all the critters that will be gathering them up over the next several months.

And, keep them away from horses. They are toxic to horses.

[NCN]

Originally Posted by alleycat

Here's the short version from memory. The "twelve ruling days" are the days from December 26th to January 6th ("Old Christmas Day" I think). The weather on each of the days represents the coming weather for that relative month ahead. For example, the weather on January 26th indicates the weather for January, the weather on December 27th indicates the weather for February, etc. If it's cold and windy on December 28th, then March will be cold and windy. Don't ask me what it will take to indicate it will be hotter than Hades in August like it was this year.

This might not be very accurate . . . but then neither is my local TV stations, and they're only predicting the weather 24 hours in advance.

I thought you were going to tell about the fogs in August. Years ago, a friend of mine commented that there would be a lot of snows that winter. The reason being is that there is supposed to be a snow in the Winter for every foggy day experienced in the preceding August. I doubt we had many fogs this August considering we were in a drought.

My nieces grandfather predicted the weather by the thickness of the animals coats, the height of the hornets nests, etc. I think this is very logical and scientific. I am a firm wooly worm believer, but you have to have the wooly worm from the area in question.