Here's what The Old Farmer's Almanac is predicting for Sask. this winter, next summer
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Saskatchewan and the rest of the Prairie provinces can expect a cold and snowy winter followed by a hot and dry summer next year, according to the 2024 edition of The Old Farmer's Almanac.
Saskatchewan and the rest of the Prairie provinces can expect a cold and snowy winter followed by a hot and dry summer next year, according to the 2024 edition of The Old Farmer's Almanac.
Managing editor Jack Burnett says predictions are formed using meteorology, climatology and solar science.
According to Burnett, the almanac is usually about 80 per cent accurate.
“So we long since put those into computer algorithms and we have a database of all weather observations from throughout Canada and the U.S. for that matter,” Burnett said.
Burnett said to make the long range forecast they look at the weather pattern by using computers and going back and looking for a close resemblance to a particular pattern in the past.
“Then we say that if it happened back then would it make sense for it to happen now?”
“The computers will then figure it out and spit out a forecast and here we are today,” Burnett said.
