Woolly Worms: The Original Winter Weather Outlooks
Every October, NOAA's Climate Prediction Center releases a winter outlook to give the public the best possible scientific prediction of how the winter may shape up across the nation; but in the pre-NOAA days, folks got this same information from a more humble source--the Woolly Bear caterpillar. Called "woolly bears" in the Midwest and Northeast, and "woolly worms" in the Southern U.