The Farmer's Almanac is predicting a colder-than-normal winter for most of the United States according to Fox News
"We're using a very strong four-letter word to describe this winter, which is C-O-L-D. It's going to be very cold," Farmer's Almanac managing editor Sandi Duncan told Fox News.
The 197 year-old publication, which came out to newsstands Monday said a winter storm will visit the Northeast just in time for Super Bowl XLVIII which will be played at MetLife Stadium in the Meadowlands in East Rutherford, N.J. Feb. 3 creating for a "storm bowl" and a winter mess during the first outdoor Super Bowl in several years Fox News reported.
"It really looks like the Super Bowl may be the Storm Bowl," Duncan told Fox News.
Two-thirds of the country is expected to receive a brutal cold front, and heavy snowfall in the Midwest, Great Lakes, and New England Fox News reported.
According to Fox News, the book's formula to its accurate predictions has not changed since its founder David Young published the first almanac in 1818. Predictions are based off of the positions of the planets, sunspots, and lunar cycles.
Scientists today do not value sunspots or low or high tides in the ocean, but the resource, which is utilized by readers to plan weddings and create gardens are accurate 80 percent of the time Fox News reported.
For example, 2012 saw a forecast which said their would be cold weather for the eastern and central United States, while areas West of the Great Lakes would have milder temperatures, began the opposite of the prediction, but ended up being correct Fox News reported.
In addition to weather predictions, the Farmer's Almanac, based in Maine, also has jokes, gardening tips, nostalgia and home remedies such as feeding carrots to dogs so they don't have bad breath, and putting mashed bananas on cracked skin to help soothe it and dry in during the winter months Fox News reported.
