By Andrew Goldstein / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette With the arrival of fall Monday night, here’s some good news: It’s going to be a beautiful autumn. The bad news … we’ll get to that later. For now, relax and enjoy what will be a colorful, crisp fall season, at least according to The Old Farmer’s Almanac of Dublin, N.H., and the Farmers’ Almanac of Lewiston, Maine. “I think it will be the kind of a fall that you like having,” said Peter Geiger, editor of the Farmers’ Almanac. “You will have chillier temperatures, but they will not kill you.” And what about those leaves? “Because we had quite a bit of rain this summer, that helps the colors,” said Mare-Anne Jarvela, senior research editor of The Old Farmer’s Almanac. “The trees are healthier and they can produce more colors. So I think it’s going to be a nice foliage season.” OK, now here’s the bad news. Remember last winter? Well, “I think it’s going to be as bad or worse this winter,” said Ms. Jarvela. Mr. Geiger agrees. “I would hunker down,” he said. “I would get my oil and wood supplies and gas supplies, and then I’d have my snow blower ready and my shovels ready.” There are, however, no signs that last year’s infamous polar vortex will return. That being said, below-average temperatures will be ubiquitous and we will see several heavy snowstorms. Some have asked the editors of The Old Farmer’s Almanac for suggestions on where to escape the upcoming onslaught, but with the season that Pittsburgh — and most of the United States except for the Southwest — is about to face, there are few places to run. “People have asked us, ‘It’s going to be so snowy and cold here, where should we go for the winter?’ ” Ms. Jarvela said. “And we say, Florida is not going to be much better because Florida’s going to be cold and wet. So we kind of joke and say you should go to Alaska, because Alaska’s going to be milder than average.” There is good news at the end of that frigid winter, the almanac authors agree: No frigid temperatures dragging on into April and beyond. “March will come in like a lion,” Mr. Geiger said, “and — unlike last year — it will go out like a lamb.”
Posted on: Thu, 25 Sep 2014 04:13:03 +0000
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