2012 Persimmon Prediction

It’s that time of year again when we start looking to nature to predict how severe our winter will be.

I used to predict winter by measuring the length of the black ring around the middle of a wooly worm but we don’t have many wooly worms in our neck of the woods. As a matter of fact I very seldom see one. I can count on one hand the amount of wooly worms I’ve seen since moving to the south over 20 years ago.

So I go to the next best thing. The persimmon. I posted the persimmon prediction last year and you can revisit that prediction here.

This year’s persimmon forcast has left me a little confused.

First let me tell you that if the seed in the persimmon looks like a spoon it’s said that there will be a harsh winter. If it looks like a fork it’s said there will be a mild winter. Or if it looks like a knife it’s said there will an icy winter.

So I cracked open the seeds from three seperate persimmons.

Most of them had no seed at all.

But the one’s that did looked like the pictures here.

Last year’s prediction was that we would have a harsh winter. Well we know that didn’t happen.

This year’s persimmon seeds look to me like a knife. So now I’m beginning to wonder if the persimmon seed results are a product of the previous winter.

What do you think?

Have you checked the persimmon seed winter prediction in your area? If you have I’d love to know the results.

Happy Wednesday!

TFP 🙂

Farm Photo 67

Last week I took pictures of the wooly worm I found.

Maybe he’s not a “true” wooly worm.

But it’s the closest thing I have here on the farm.

And the closest wooly I have as a weather predictor.

But in this picture….

It shows a black streak down his back.

Now if those colors were reversed…

I’d call him….

“Yellow”.

Ha ha…I crack myself up.

I hope you have a great weekend!!

🙂

Predictions

According to the Old Farmer’s Almanac in my area of the mid-atlantic our temperatures will be below normal and the precipitation above normal.

That kind of sounds like a repeat of last year’s winter weather.

Country people look for signs from nature to predict the coming winter.

Things like the wooly worm caterpillar.

They say that the more black there is the harsher the winter will be.

And most of the time they are brown and black. With the black stretch like a belt around the middle of the wooly worm.

The wider the belt the longer the winter.

Sometimes they’re black on each end with a brown belt. Meaning harsh at the beginning and end of winter, and not so harsh in the middle.

I average seeing one wooly worm a year since I moved to South Carolina.

Last year’s wooly was very light in color. And we all know that the whole country had a very harsh winter last year.

This is the only wooly I’ve seen this year.

He’s not brown or black. He’s tan. Darker than the one I spotted last year.

And much different than the one from last year and maybe that one wasn’t a true wooly.

But according to tradition of predicting by the wooly, we should have a mild winter.

Then there’s the persimmon seed.

The prediction is if it looks like a fork it will be a harsh winter.

If it looks like a spoon it will be a mild winter.

And you know we have persimmon trees here on the farm, so I had to go check it out and share it with you.

So what do you think?

Spoon or fork?

It just looks like a seed to me.

I didn’t look at them last year.

But I did the year before, and the seed looked like a spoon with a dip in the center just like a spoon would have.

And if I remember correctly our winter wasn’t too harsh, about normal I would say.

Honestly, I’ve never seen one that looked like a fork.

Have you?

Do you know of any other old time weather predictions?

I would love to hear about them!

🙂