Amateur meteorologist has Philly panicked over 40″ snow rumors
Hey, I thought all meteorologists were amateurs…
Apparently, residents in snow traumatized Philly are a bit freaked because this old, Santa-like dude who “predicts” weather from his basement based on moon phases and “animal behavior” said a few weeks ago that the area was in for OMG the biggest snowstorm ever on March 7th. The tales say the man, Lester Moyer, has been right in predicting the last two snowmaggedons and apparently self-publishes a popular “almanac” that many people take very seriously:
“The people that buy my Almanac say I’m 85 to 95 percent accurate, you know, and they plan their vacations and their family get togethers around my predictions,” Lester says. “Of course, I, you know, get the naysayers, you know, who say, you know, I’m some kinda a kook, you know, but it was a way of life years ago.”
Though Moyer does actually kind of look a bit kooky, even a broken clock is right twice so far since February:
“In the almanac, Lester predicts bad weather days on Feb. 4 and 5 – Berks got 17.2 inches Feb. 5. He also predicted “something wicked this way cometh” Feb. 8 to 11 – we got 23 inches in a blustery storm on Wednesday, which was Feb. 10,” Reading Eagle reporter Ron Devlin writes.
Although conventional, non-kooky forecasts have no indication even a quarter-inch of the white stuff will fall on or around that date in the area, the rumor still is said to have panicked locals considerably.
