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1. A warm November is the sign of a bad winter.
   
2. Thunder in the fall foretells a cold winter.
   
3. If animals have an especially thick coat of fur, it will be a cold winter.
   
4. When squirrels bury their nuts early, it will be a hard winter.
   
5. If the woolly worms head is more black than colored, the coldest part of the winter will come in the first months of winter.
   
6. The more black than brown a woolly worm has, and/or the wider the black stripe, the worse the winter.
   
7. If fruit trees bloom in the fall, the weather will be severe the following winter.
   
8. If berries and nuts are plentiful, it will be a hard winter.
   
9. A cold winter is succeeded by a warm winter and vice versa.
   
10. If the first snow falls on unfrozen ground, expect a mild winter.
    
11. It will be a bad winter if trees keep their leaves until late in the fall.
    
12. Hornets nest built in the tops of trees point to a mild winter.
    
13. The first twelve days of the year are thought to foretell the weather for each of the next twelve months. (The variant is the 12 days from new Christmas (Dec. 25) to old Christmas (Jan. 5) determine the weather.
    
14. If an owl hoots on the east side of a mountain it denotes bad weather.