Should Coloradans Really Put a Lot of Stock Into the Farmers’ Almanac?

Living in Colorado means having to deal with all sorts of weather, from hot summers to frigid winters. For over 200 years, the Old Famers' Almanac has used a "secret formula" to predict the weather, but should we in Colorado really believe in it?

Millions of (roughly) $10 copies of the Old Farmers Almanac are sold every year. Are the people buying it really putting their faith in what it says about the weather? Maybe their just getting it to track sunrises and sunset, and not the weather.

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To me, it seems silly to trust the Old Farmers' Almanac when it comes to the weather. The proprietary "secret formula" for predicting the weather dates back over 200 years, but it's noted as being about 52% accurate when it comes to weather predictions.

I can see some people saying, "Farmers Almanac goes back to before we needed all that high-tech stuff.." but the Almanac is almost a coin toss.

I can't see myself planning a vacation depending upon what the Old Farmers' Almanac said the weather was going to be. "The Almanac says it's going to be a rainy summer in Vermont area, guess I'll skip that trip, this year." Nope.

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I know of weatherman from one of our sister stations talking about how even the most-modern of weather forecasting tools can't really predict, with any certainty, weather more than 10 days out. The almanac is about tradition, though, I can see people buying it just because "the family always has..."