No snow for TN anyway!

I'll drink to that!

I bought new snow boots so it won't snow here :). It doesn't snow here much anyway.

When I moved the trash can this morning, I saw an all black woolly bear. No stripes, but does it mean the same?

A fun wives tale... but in error I'm afraid. A brown wooly indicates a warm and long summer has just passed, not that a snowless winter is to come.

Woolies start out black, then turn brown- the longer and nice the summer, the more time for the black hairs to turn brown. So a nice long summer yields brown woolies, while a cool or short summer with a dragging cold spring or early fall with give us a more brown and black woolly :)

There can also be multiple generations of woolies in the same area, so you might find all brown older ones, striped mid-aged ones, and younger all black ones.

Honestly we haven't had a good "winter" here in years. Last winter, snow a few times, less than an inch each time. Wasn't ridiculously cold for long either. Growing up we had huge snow storms, inches and inches of snow. In 1993 we had a blizzard, 40" of snow over night, plus below zero temps. Our kids missed a week of school. The following winter, if I remember correctly, we had 100" of snow over the course of the entire winter season. I live in south central PA.

With the fires in the west I am expecting some areas of the country to have more snow than normal. Which areas will depend on where the air currents are most active.

I felt a bit for the lady in another thread who just got a new and improved snow blower.

My lane is about 500 feet long, my landlord, house about 2 miles away, pushes or blows the snow, using a tractor without a cab.

My memory is that he didn't need to clear it at all last year, but it nay have been once.

I almost got stuck once, but I've dealt with snow before and was able to get unstuck with little difficulty.

ole joyful

Well, they're (not the woolies) predicting a colder and wetter winter for us in the PNW, which might mean some good snow for us. I love a good snowstorm here. Everything shuts down (as if not already shut down, lol) and few people brave the driving because of all of the hills and lack of snow removal equipment.

I live in NW Pennsylvania. Saw an all black one today.

I dunno. There was a much harsher winter after Hurricane Harvey. I believe I've heard the winters are harder on the years where there are hurricanes. We've had several moderate ones this year . I'm thinking we could have a winter.

Our weather god Tom Skilling says, creatures react, they don’t predict.

I haven't seen a wooly in central FL since I moved here last Dec. I don't know if they're even native here. My own prediction is there will be no accumulating snow, but I can't rule out a passing flurry lol.

We are in the mid Atlantic and last winter did not even once use a ice scraper or a snow shovel! I have never seen a winter like that here......never!!

I could be mistaken but I do think that the winter forecast calls for a bit more this year.

I found two more woolly bears yesterday while pulling weeds--a giant woolly bear (leopard moth) and a yellow woolly bear. The giant woolly was curled exactly as in the pic, and the yellow was feeding on a trumpet vine.