Tuesday, December 25

Meaty-orology

Paul Smokov doesn't need radar or other high-tech equipment to forecast a major snowstorm on the prairie. He consults pig spleens.

"It looks like a normal year with no major storms," said the 84-year-old Smokov, peering at two of the brown, glistening, foot-long organs on his kitchen counter like a Gypsy gazing into a crystal ball. "That's what the spleens tell me."

N.D. Farmer Forecasts Via Pig Spleens , Gut Feeling: North Dakota Farmer Forecasts The Winter By Examining Spleens Of Butchered Pigs - CBS News

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