It might be another doozy! LOL No problem, I'll just sit back, have another cup of joe, and weather the storm. I have heard from other weather sources to will be a rocky road this winter.
https://www.almanac.com/old-farmers-almanac-2020-winter-forecast

I heard that it was gonna be another bad winter. I'm okay with that. Makes trapping a little tougher but I think most of us are up to the challenge. I'm ready for "a parade of snowstorms." Looks like the prediction on the map for the Northeast U.S. sounds like a few women I've dated.

^ LOL! Ya what ever, we can handle it. It will be just another day for us in the north. The national weather people won't even report if there is snow storm for us. Lol I like it that way, anyway.

Generally I dont trust a 7 day forecast, much less months away. We will know around the end of April how the winter was. LOL

Yep..That's how I feel..I don't pay much attention to weather people anymore..I use to and when they miss it really really bad..It used to cost me also in whatever it was that I had planned..Bob Dylan said it best "You don't need a weatherman to tell you which way the wind blows"..LOL

I have a gut feeling it's gonna be a humdinger. Gonna start with a early killing frost.

This year is shaping up to have a killing frost on September 15 here in Iowa, and if that happens probably 70 percent of the beans will be ruined and about 60 percent of the corn probably wont be black layered.

Low clouds & fog along the coast........spreading inland by noon. Small craft warnings, small cakes, floes and brash inshore. Winds SE to 50 knots and seas to 18 feet.

Other than that we're good to go with dirthole sets

You have to go by how big the muskrat houses are. That's what you look for. That will indicate the severity of the upcoming winter. My people have been doing this for thousands of years. Take a look around freeze up.

Or how far down it's feet a grouses feathers go it what I've always gone by. But the Farmer's Almanac is usually pretty consistent

Les I think you will need those ear flappers again this year. Lol We usually get a good frost about the 17th of Sept. give or take a week or so, but that is an average date for us. It usually is right close to the full moon in Sept..

I have observed and been told by the old timers to watch the wild fruit trees and see what kind of production they have had for the summer. The heavier the abundance of fruit means a though winter and that seems to have some consistency. Also the (This word is unacceptable on Trapperman) ants how active they are in building their homes.

with la nina and el nino not forecasted for this winter. I would suggest it is business as usual for winter weather in ND..

I'm hoping winter at least waits till the end of November. We've got a late deer season this year in Wisconsin and we set deer camp up in the river bottoms. How late is it? The second Sunday is the first of December.

Would like to see open water as late as possible, that will determine the length of my coon season. Haven't pounded coon in 4 or 5 years now, but will do so this season. It might get real interesting on the river come mid November.

Well, going back to the old story.... a feller asked a Native American how the winter was going to be and he said very cold.
The guy asked how do you know that and he replied, white man cut much wood.

Zim

The forecasters probably saw Snowy's name.

About every year someone, somewhere, claims its going to be a severe winter, usually they're wrong, but every once in a while........ It's the blind chicken theory, sooner or later a blind chicken will find a kernal of corn.....

I would just like to see snow here! We didn't have any snow to speak of last winter. Really didn't have much precipitation at all last winter. It got cold but no water! I guess when I go to Colorado in January I'll probably get to see snow at least.

We will know more in the spring .

Great, just sent the link to my wife and her (dry) response was, "you better make more waxed dirt".....as if I needed another critic

We just had the hottest summer I can ever remember, and lately our weather pattern here in CT tends to be more on extremes - not moderate....
It stays summer like now well into October, then it cools down a little - but not really that much, but then just before Thanksgiving it will drop into the teens then suddenly rocket back up.

Strange - it's like our seasons all start about 6 weeks late, and end about the same... 6 or 7 weeks late.