Ready or not, winter is headed our way. The coldest and darkest season of the year runs from Dec. 21, through March 20, which leads to the inevitable question — what type of winter weather can we ...

Before we had modern technology and forecasters, we had persimmons, squirrel tails and woolly worms. And groundhogs. We can’t forget the groundhogs, right? All of these are old traditions and folklore ...

Winter is bearing down on the Ozarks, with the arrival a few short weeks away. Short days, long nights, and cold temperatures are starting to creep in, and many people are wondering, how bad will ...

ST. LOUIS — Meteorologists spend hours formulating a winter outlook, but a native fruit could cut that time in half. The lore behind persimmon seed forecasting is hard to trace. Whoever decided to cut ...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (KTHV) – If you caught "THV11 at Noon" on Friday, you heard meteorologist Tom Brannon speaking about persimmon seeds. This was after he received photos from viewers depicting ...

This year’s winter persimmon forecast was delayed a week due to unforeseen circumstances — a week I thought would leave me searching for very few fruits that might be left. Unlike the frost-free fall ...

Take one look at the forecast, and you know winter weather is right around the corner. Around this time of year, old timers start to turn to their old wife's tales for clues on how harsh the winter ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. SEAGROVE, N.C. — Melissa Bunker says if you ...

While winter doesn't officially begin until Dec. 21, you may already be asking what it will be like this year. You're in luck — we just happen to have done some "traditional" research on the topic. As ...

Persimmon seeds have long been used to forecast how cold and snowy the upcoming winter will be! Many people would put the persimmon seeds and the woolly worms at the top of the winter weather ...