The knife symbol did show up in a few of the opened persimmons, indicating frigid temperatures. The reporter opened the seeds from several persimmons to find a spoon in most every seed meaning lots of snow. There are other ways to predict the weather.Īccording to folklore, if you crack open a persimmon seed from ripe fruit and look at the shape inside (called a cotyledon), it can forecast the winter weather – fork shape the winter will be mild spoon shape there will be a lot of snow and knife shape you can expect frigid winds that will “cut” like a blade. The National Weather Service has not yet made its winter predictions for Indiana. Their weather predictions are right about 80 percent of the time. The Almanac uses “solar science, the study of sunspots and other solar activity climatology, the study of prevailing weather patterns and meteorology, the study of the atmosphere,” to make its long-term predictions, according to its website. There had not been a colder winter since 2014-15. Last winter, on average, was almost five degrees colder than the winter of 2019, according to the National Weather Service. We look forward to the reading next year.If the prediction is correct, it would be the second Indiana winter in a row to be more frigid than usual. Here are the problems we have had with our Persimmon Home in the past 18 months. While her beloved tree is gone, she tells us she can hike into the mountains to gather fruit until her new tree bears fruit. It’s just that Persimmon Homes is the biggest so gets more complaints than a smaller company. This is Melissa’s 10th year reading the seeds. At the time, I was mostly excited to be getting some snow days from school, but my grandfather’s ominous look sobered my childish dreams of lazing around, and we began furiously canning and preparing the freezers for what was coming. In 1985, when I was only 5 years old, it happened again. One story happened in 1962, where the seeds read all spoons and the precipitation was almost constant and continued until May of 1963. I’ve heard of similar stories from my grandfather. I have never seen this in all of my years. This year’s seeds (2018) revealed all spoons and only 2 forks. This morning I gathered as many as I could. I left my tree and allowed the dead limbs to ripen the fruit. The next morning during the intermittent rain, I saw my beloved tree laying in the mud and its unripe fruits scattered. 2) Buy the pulp frozen at a funky farm market (the sort of place that also sells 'homemade' jam, which may actually be made 500 miles away). Rinse them and put them through a strainer to remove the seeds & skin. That evening, the soggy ground released the roots and down she came. 1) Grow your own or ask a friend if you can pick up persimmons under their tree (in the fall, of course). Because the tree was too large to shake them down, I decided to wait. After the storm (the tree was still standing), I looked at the fruit and saw they were peachy orange in color, with ripe ones at the top. Most of the persimmons remained green right as the storm hit. The season continues the focus on self-proclaimed 'baddies' together however, the season is not set in Atlanta, Georgia, but presumably across various cities across Southern United States. They came early this year, so I should have taken the hint that something large was coming, but between family life and other things, I got pretty busy. The second season (also titled Baddies South) of Zeus Networks reality television series Baddies is slated to for a premiere in 2022. Prior to the storm, I kept an eye on my persimmon tree watching the fruit. We did have flooding inside our home! This was a constant battle for two days, but we’re nice and dry now! We were luckier than most. We lost power for a little while but were lucky. Wooly worms and persimmon seeds are not the only folklore indicators of winter weather. ![]() This week, she shared with us her harrowing story of salvaging the fruits and getting a persimmon seed forecast for us: The Persimmon Lady’s Story from Hurricane Florence According to my mom’s Old Farmer’s Almanac, when you cut open a persimmon seed it will look like either a fork, a knife or a spoon. Melissa’s family and her persimmon tree were right in its path. Appalachian folklore has it that both the wooly worm and persimmon seeds can forecast the coming winter weather. This year was a bit of a challenge, thanks to Hurricane Florence, which made landfall in North Carolina on September 14. Around this time each year, we check in with Melissa Bunker of North Carolina, a.k.a., “ The Persimmon Lady,” who sends us her winter predictions based on seeds she opens from the persimmon fruit grown on her tree in central North Carolina.
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