today's fall-like temperatures are a good reminder that like it or not winter is coming and I wanted to share with you the predictions of the Farmers Almanac and as always this is not an official storm track 9 forecast but regardless here is what the folks at the Farmers Almanac expect for our winter ahead they expect a quote cold wet and white winter for us in North Central Wisconsin now that should be no surprise well it's Wisconsin but I do want to point out that last year their prediction was cold and stormy and if you ask any snowmobiler out there it was anything but cold and stormy scenes like this were common and many snowmobile trails never even saw enough snow to open once so that should tell you something but here's one more thing to keep in mind I have here in my hands several Farmers almanacs from the past 20 years each and every one of these say that our winter would be cold and snowy take any Almanac from any year and it's going to say that for us so we're just going to toss these predictions well right here in the trash now you might be wondering what is our official Winter forecast we're still going over the data and we'll have that forecast for you soon but one thing we do feel confident in saying we won't have a repeat of our dud winter last year