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 Post subject: Weather story or Onion story?
PostPosted: Sun Dec 15, 2002 7:50 pm 
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By Roberta Rampton <p>WINNIPEG, Manitoba (Reuters) - After examining 31 pig spleens, Canadian farmer Gus Wickstrom is sure of his six-month forecast for southwest Saskatchewan: snowstorms, mild spells and May rains. <p>The retired farmer from Tompkins, Saskatchewan, is one of a handful of people on the Prairies who forecasts the weather by examining the spleen of a freshly slaughtered pig . <p>"I look at it, I feel it with my fingers," Wickstrom told Reuters on Monday, explaining that depressions and fatty deposits on the 60-centimetre (2-foot) long organ tell him what the weather will be like, and when. <p>The forecast is accurate for a 320-kilometre (200-mile) radius around where the pig was slaughtered, more than 80 percent of the time, he said. <p>
"I'm right up there with (national forecast service) Environment Canada," Wickstrom said. "Lots of times they're not correct at all." <p>
The 64-year-old has been reading spleens for more than two decades, carrying on a tradition his great-great-grandfather brought to Canada from Sweden. <p>
When Western Canada was first settled, farmers would gather when weather turned cold to butcher hogs for the winter, and amuse themselves with spleen forecasts, Wickstrom explained. ...
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 Post subject: Re: Weather story or Onion story?
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<blockquote><font size="1" face="Arial, Helvetica ,sans-serif">quote:</font><hr>Originally posted by ADKbrown:
<p>When Western Canada was first settled, farmers would gather when weather turned cold to butcher hogs for the winter, and amuse themselves with spleen forecasts, Wickstrom explained. ...<hr></blockquote><p>By damn, that IS amusing, ADK.
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PostPosted: Sun Dec 15, 2002 9:05 pm 
One wonders what meterological mircales could be wrought with a pristine pancreas ....
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