
All You Need to Know About Connecticut’s 2025 Spring Forecast According to the Farmer’s Almanac
Has your oil heat furnace ever jolted you awake in the dead of night? During a harsh spell of frigid, Eskimo-like conditions that gripped us for a week or two, my furnace started emitting a deep, ominous growl that pierced through the silence, leaving my heart racing as I struggled to comprehend what was happening. To make it stop, we had to feed that furnace beast to the tune of $829.37.
On Thursday, March 20, 2025, I'm anticipating the arrival of the spring equinox! The Farmer's Almanac has a name for it, "The Thunder and Zing Spring!" According to the Almanac, we need to be patient because spring weather will be taking its damn time to arrive.
This means winter conditions could hang out across New England, the Midwest, and the Great Lakes. My favorite part of this miserable forecast is an unusually late winter storm that could bring a blanket of rain, sleet, and snow across the Atlantic Seaboard.
Let's get real. How, exactly, does the Farmer's Almanac predict the weather? According to Wikipedia, in 1818, the founding editor of the Almanac, David Young, devised a formula that incorporates sunspot activity and tidal action of the Moon along with the position of the planets. The editors of the Almanac are adamant that this formula has been time-tested, challenged, and approved for centuries. YOUR THOUGHTS?!
Who are you going to believe, the Farmer's Almanac or the Climate Prediction Center(CPC) from the National Weather Service? The CPC reports, "La Niña conditions are present and are expected to persist through February-April 2025 (59% chance). According to Hearst CT Media, a study by the Climate Prediction Center gives the state, along with all of the East Coast, equal chances of becoming above or below average as it pertains to terms of precipitation during the spring of 2025
Here's something to keep in mind when you're searching for a long-range forecast. According to NOAA, a seven-day forecast can accurately predict the weather about 80 percent of the time, and a five-day forecast can accurately predict the weather approximately 90 percent of the time. However, a 10-day—or longer—forecast is only right about half the time. Farmer's Almanac produced the following YouTube video.
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