Winter predictions: From wooly worms to the National Weather Service

The Farmer's Almanac predicts a pretty nasty winter, the National Weather Service thinks January through March will be cold and dry.

So far, we don't have a lot of data from wooly worms, persimmon seeds, or onion skins.

Some meteorologists say we could have a couple of sizeable snow events, but as anyone who's lived in Oklahoma for any length of time knows, predicting the weather can be quite tricky.

We found a winter weather outlook which predicts 11.3 inches of snow, well above the average of 9.7 inches annually.

That's especially true when one tries to make long-range forecasts.

However, as noted, the National Weather Service thinks the winter months will be cold, but fairly dry.

The all-time record for snowfall in a month occurred in February of 2011, when the NWS measured 22.5 inches.

The record for a year was in 1958, when Tulsa had 29.6 inches.

We've had several years where we got no snow at all, or just a trace.

The most recent was in 1981, when only nine-tenths of an inch of snow fell.