Word: woollybear
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...wallet...Snow will be frequently heavy, and winter will come on quicker than a duck on a June bug." Methodology: Woolly bear caterpillars. Analyzing the thickness of the coat and the size of the critter's dark-colored ends, the centenarian made his forecast at the 24th annual Woollybear Festival in Vermilion, Ohio, in October...
...fall, woollybear caterpillars have a brown band in their midriffs. If the brown band is wide, a mild winter is indicated; if the band is narrow, it will be a hard winter [TIME, Nov. 8, 1948]. This year's bands, according to the museum's naturalists, are wide...
...Almanac goes to press before any of the usual seasonal signs appear: the nut stores of squirrels, or woollybear caterpillars (TIME, Nov. 8). Mr. Weatherwise just hauls off and predicts.* How in tophet does he do it? This week, in the New York Times Magazine, Almanac Publisher Robb Sagendorph, who does business in Dublin, N.H., stuck his Yankee tongue in his cheek and drawled a few clues...
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