Winter Folklore

[Tster]

Being from the South,(Kentucky) I remember my grandparents talking about the signs of winter to come. Sorta like the wooly worms, the squirrels, does anyone else have a way of predicting how bad the winter will be. They are saying here that this is going to be one of the worst. ;D ;D

[Pharmer Phil]

Thanx T, always good to here that kinda thang...
but I suppose, ifin it's worse den last year, I don't know how I'll make it

[Deleted]

The higher hornets build their nests from the ground, the worse the winter will be........they built'em high up around here this year

[lucy]

The only wooly worm I have seen so far was confusing--it was black all down the middle and brown on both sides?? Never seen one like that. Any ideas what that means? Not seen any hornets nests.

[Tster]

I may not have this right, but I think the wider the black the harsher the winter. Leaves are already fallen here. Not had a frost yet, but it's coming! We haven't seen any hornets nest this year, we had one beside our pool last summer (Da Axeman never told me, cause I'd never would have never got in the pool!) It was low to the ground, very low, we had a hard and long winter.Lots and lots of snow.Snow stayed on the ground from Nov. to March!
Hey Phil, ya gotta snuggle jus a little closer in hard winters!

[Deleted]

The old pholks also say.........the more silk on corn, the harder the winter.

[jacobtowne]

The woolly bear caterpillar's stripes are are used to predict the coming winter in these parts as follows:

The longer the brown stripe between the black ones the milder the winter;

A narrow brown stripe foretells a cold, severe winter.

JT

[jeanette]

the old framers almanac says record cold for december for us