Predicting Snow

One of my favorite places to spend part of my morning is at Wilson’s Wharf talking to the lobstermen who always have a tale to tell.  They told me about a woman in Lubec who has for decades predicted the number of snow storms with startling accuracy.

How does she do it?  By counting the number of foggy days in the month of August.  Every foggy day is supposed to equate to a storm in the coming winter.

Last August (2008) I kept a tally of foggy days and wound up with 16 and we had 17 snowy days that winter.  Not too shabby, eh?

Just like last  year, a “C” on a given date means clear weather and “F” will denote a foggy day.

August 2009 Sun	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thurs	Fri	Sat
						1 F
2 F	3 F	4 F	5 F	6   C	7 C	8 C
9  C	10 C	11 F	12 C	13  C	14 C	15 C
16  C	17 C	18 C	19 C	20 C	21 F	22 F
23 C	24 F	25F	26 F	27 C	28 C	29 C
30 C	31 C

Eleven foggy days.  I’ll keep track of snowy days and we’ll see if this proves as accurate as it was last winter.