[URBAN NOTE] "Canadian Farmer's Almanac predicts icy cold, snowy winter"

[rfmcdonald]

CBC News reports.

According to the Canadian Farmers' Almanac, this winter is going to be icy cold and snowy.

That's bad news for anyone who enjoyed last year's mild winter months, which stayed as mild as Canada gets thanks to the El Nino weather pattern.

That's all over, the Almanac's editor Pete Geiger told CBC Radio's Metro Morning.

"We think old man winter is going to return," he said.

"It's going to be downright cold."