Well, here is the average looking Wooly on my farm these days, so I would say.. we are in for a generally mild winter, overall with a few bouts of good cold weather. What’s your woolies saying were you live?

Focklore says that the wider the red bands the more mild the winter, the bigger the black ends, the worse the winter will be.

 According to my trusty farm book, my woolies have been saying..and our winter have been.

1st, winter, was equal parts in color, and we had a good fall/spring, with a short brutal winter

2nd winter, was very little brown and it was a long bitter cold snowy winter with a shorter fall and shorter spring

3rd Winter was more red then black, and it was short and mild here as well

4th Winter, saw my first all reds on the farm, with a few having very little stripes of black, and we had one of the mildest winters on record..