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08/01/12, 06:15 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Upper Michigan
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Your winter predictions in your area?
Seeing that I've already saw my first Wooly Bear on July 28, 2012, 1 month earlier than last year:
Have been smelling skunks frequently, lots of raccoon kill on the road and the mice problem we're having I think winter will be coming early and will be cold!
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08/01/12, 06:46 AM
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Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: wouldn't you like to know der, eh? Zone 3b/4a
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I can feel fall in the air. I think it's going to be a really snowy winter.
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08/01/12, 07:18 AM
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Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: Southern NY
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Well the mice are here already lol
I also think early fall, squashes are looking ready fast , corn is thick husked, Rose of Sharon and Loosestrife is blooming already and geese are starting to flock
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08/01/12, 07:19 AM
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Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Kentucky
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what's it mean when the woolie worms are out already?? saw one the other day.....?!
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08/01/12, 07:39 AM
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Join Date: Jul 2012
Location: MN
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I'm one of those crazy people who wish for snow. So I'm predicting an early, snowy winter (which will all but guarantee a repeat of last year's snowless, warm one).
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08/01/12, 07:44 AM
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Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: Ohio
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I go buy The Farmer's Almanac. It's calling for snow in mid-September and a repeat of last year. Baah!
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08/01/12, 07:45 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Maine
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And I'm one of those crazier people that wish for COLD!! With the past two of three winters being short and quite warm, I'm not going to predict. But, I spend as much time as possible ice fishing, so the colder, the better, and the less snow to have to deal with, even better! C'mon hardwater!! 
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08/01/12, 07:47 AM
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Join Date: Feb 2009
Location: WV
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I havent got my wood cut yet, slow down winter.
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08/01/12, 08:38 AM
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Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: Southern Idaho
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Our neighbor told us the leaves here started falling a month early this year (we only moved in last October).
We were just out picking up willow limbs late yesterday and although we've just finished mowing the place, there's already a pretty good carpet of leaves on the ground again.
I may just be imagining it since I am hating this triple degree heat, but I think we're going to have an early winter. We'll know here pretty soon.
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08/01/12, 08:45 AM
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Join Date: Mar 2012
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I'm afraid it might be long and cold if it is my animals will have to eat the straw bales as there is no more hay to be had:-(
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08/01/12, 08:50 AM
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Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: Concho Valley Region TX
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I think so too.
I hope so. I do much better in the cold than the heat.
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08/01/12, 08:51 AM
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Join Date: Jul 2012
Location: MN
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We have a lot of leaf fall here, too, but I think it's due to stress from the heat and drought. Not all trees are doing it - just certain varieties which are probably more sensitive to the extreme conditions. Things have grown/ripened/declined a month early here, too, but then spring arrived a month early with March temperatures in the 80's and no snow whatsoever through the winter. So, it will be interesting if this is indicative of an early winter or not!
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08/01/12, 09:27 AM
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Join Date: Nov 2008
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No predictions from me--not after this Summer....
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08/01/12, 09:37 AM
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Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: Iowa
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This is such a hard one to predict here since summer has been in drought conditions. The animals and insects are out searching for H2O and the trees and such are lacking as well.
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08/01/12, 09:43 AM
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Join Date: Jul 2012
Location: ct
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acorns are falling already in connecticut. MIL's lawn is covered, found that out the hard way, walking barefoot through her long grass, ouch!
personally i hope it's a repeat of last year, our roof is on it's last legs and we are trying to sell so a mild winter would be wecome here.
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08/01/12, 09:46 AM
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Join Date: Mar 2006
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I don't know how to predict winter but my dad has said that he thinks it's going to be a booger of one. It's still been so hot here that Fall seems a long ways off let alone Winter.
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08/01/12, 09:59 AM
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Join Date: Nov 2011
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I'm torn between really wishing for a cold, snowy winter (I'm a snow bunny!!!) and wanting something slightly milder (but still definitely winter!). Reason being, we just moved to our farm a month ago, have a few livestock, and no hay as of right now! We have leads on where to get some but are waiting to hear back to know for sure. I figure, if I get all my proverbial ducks in a row and am ready for a harsh winter, it'll be mild. But let me slack off or be unable to prepare well?? Oh man... You know it'll snow then! :P
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08/01/12, 10:31 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Oregon
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DH and I were just noticing last evening that the starlings are gathering up into huge flocks already -- something we don't usually see until late September.
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08/01/12, 11:26 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Eastern Saskatchewan
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It will be cold, with a lot of snow. Always has been, always will be. It is easy to forecast our winters... LOL
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08/01/12, 11:32 AM
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Join Date: May 2009
Location: Missouri
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As it has been for the past couple of years, it seems that the seasons are a month sooner. I don't have a predictions, but I'm praying for a VERY snowy winter. We need quite a few deep snows to get the moisture back in the ground, and a LONG hard freeze to kill off the explosion of bugs we're seeing this year.
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