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LANSING -- After an unusually warm and stormy summer, the Great Lakes region has in store a "frosty flip-flop" winter, according to the 2021-22 Farmers' Almanac forecast.
"By that, we mean one month it's going to start out mild, and it's going to get icy, it's going to get snowy," said Sandi Duncan, the publication's managing editor. "It's going be a mixed bag kind of winter."
The month-to-month contrast follows an unusually stormy summer for the Great Lakes region, which the Almanac predicted to be "muggy and thundery" last April.
The buzzwords for the Great Lakes this winter are "icy and flaky," the Almanac reports.
January is expected to begin mild with rain and wet snow, followed by 2-5 inches of snow possible in a storm at the end of the month, the publication predicts. February calls for bitter temperatures but little precipitation. March has been projected as snowy and stormy throughout the month.
What makes the Farmer's Almanac so certain?
That's hard to know. Its predictions do not include any type of computer satellite tracking or lore-based techniques, such as groundhogs, the publication reports. Its formula includes factors such as "sunspot activity, tidal action of the moon, the position of the planets and a variety of other factors."