Alright lets get to the point. What this post is about is an almanac. It is called the Old Farmers Almanac. Almanacs are books about what could happen one year or what has happened. In them there is a small section (50 pages out of say 350) about weather. Here is some information...
Some people use almanacs instead of the forecasts made by weathermen. Almanacs tell you the average temperature for each month and the precipitation average for each month for a region of the country. They do not tell about air pressure or wind speed. The most famous almanac is The Old Farmer’s Almanac. The weather forecasters at Old Farmer’s study solar science (what is happening on the sun’s surface - solar activity), meteorology (what is happening in the atmosphere), and climatology (weather patterns). They compare weather patterns and solar activity from the past, and then they compare those results with solar activity now to predict the weather for now. For example, if fifteen years ago there were three sunspots and in that month there were five major rainstorms in the Desert Southwest, and there are three sunspots now, we can predict that there will be five major rainstorms in the Desert Southwest this month. In their forecasting, they focus on any changes from the average precipitation or temperature. They sometimes make forecasts eighteen months ahead of time.
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