2025 Old Farmer’s Almanac Spring Predictions for Kewanee: Hot and Dry

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By Susan Devilder February 7, 2025

(Photo: Old Farmer’s Almanac)

Those who do not put much stock in the shadow of a Groundhog may prefer spring predictions of the old farmer’s Almanac, first released in the 1790s. What kind of spring do they predict for the Kewanee residents?

Warmer and drier than usual.

According to Almanac, the US spring outlooks are warmer than normal temperatures for most of the country with the exception of southern and central California, desert southwest, southern Florida and the western Ohio Valley, where it will be close to below normal.

Although large parts of the country will experience more rainfall than usual, dry conditions in the Heartland region are expected, which includes Kewanee. Other areas such as Upper New England, southern Florida, Texas-Ochlahoma and Western Ohio Valley can also expect less rainfall.

According to Almanac, Hjertelandet, which includes Iowa, Missouri, Eastern Kansas, Nebraska and part of Illinois, can expect a hot spring. However, rainfall will be below normal throughout the region, and the hot and dry conditions are likely to continue through the summer.

How exactly is the old farmer’s almanac?

The answer is better than a groundhog. While the accuracy of Punxsutawney Phil is only 39 percent, the old farmer’s almanac claims that “the accuracy of predicting the direction of rainfall from Normal for a representative city in each region is 83.3 percent. Their anomal prognosis for a very wet winter in Atlantic Corridor was very accurate.

“Overall, our accuracy was predicting the direction of temperature departure for a representative city in each region 44.4%,” they wrote.

To make their long -range predictions, they emit their weather forecasts from a secret formula devised by the founder of Almanac, Robert B. Thomas, far back in 1792.

Whether Kewanee’s Spring will be warmer and drier than usual, as predicted by Almanac, or still weeks away, as predicted by a soil hut, to see. But with February to us, one thing can be said in the spring: It’s just around the corner now.