Farmers' Almanac: Snowy And Bitter Cold Winter Ahead For Long Island

BY KARA SEYMOUR

The Farmers’ Almanac has released its long-range prediction for winter 2015-16 and the news isn’t good, unless you like it really cold and snowy.

The publication predicts a “snowy and bitter” cold winter for New York and New England.

The mid-Atlantic states, including Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, West Virginia and Virginia will also have a “snowy and unseasonably” cold winter, the Farmers’ Almanac predicts.

“According to the Farmers’ Almanac, the winter of 2015–2016 is looking like a repeat of last winter, at least in terms of temperatures with unseasonably cold conditions over the Atlantic Seaboard, eastern portions of the Great Lakes, and the lower peninsula of Michigan, Ohio, Kentucky, most of the Tennessee and Mississippi Valley, as well as much of the Gulf Coast,” the publication announced.

How much snow can we expect on Long Island?

A good amount, the Farmers’ Almanac says.

“We are ’red-flagging’ the second week of January and the second week of February for possible heavy winter weather with a long, drawn out spell of stormy weather extending through much of the first half of March,” the publication said.

Click here to read the full long-range forecast by the Farmers’ Almanac.

Photo: Flickr/CreativeCommons/Doug Kerr- Sound Avenue in Riverhead in 2010