Woolly Bear Update (As We Get Closer To Xmas)

I'd have to say that so far, the Legend of the Woolly Bear is HOLDING TRUE.  I'm writing this on December 14th, 2019 and so far we have had only 3 really cold days -- in the 20s or lower (Fahrenheit) -- and only a little snowfall, swiftly banished by the next 40-degree day.  People are walking around in windbreakers today and we're in Michigan, for crying out loud -- the state where Alaskans complain that they wish they could go home because the winters are SO MUCH HARDER here.

So the wide red band on the woolly bears appears to be accurate, so far, in predicting a mild winter. 

I do wonder what the caterpillars look like in the areas nailed over the Thanksgiving weekend by Winter Storm Ezekiel.  Thousands of flights were cancelled, cars were twirling all over the roads until stopped by trees, and everything in the storm's path looked more or less like this:

I picture the blacker caterpiggles gathering in  places like Montana and signaling to the storm:  "This way!  We're over here!  Bring it, baby!" while the the redder ones where I live say something more like "Please do not step over the red line!  There is plenty of space to drop all that white stuff directly north of here, you will be welcomed father north, PLEASE PROCEED NORTH..."

...and somehow, the storm listened and obeyed!  OK, I'm sure it doesn't really work that way BUT IT'S NICE TO THINK ABOUT.