Kentucky’s prognosticating woolly worm to give its winter forecast
At the center of the festival is a woolly worm race, and the fastest larva is chosen as the year's prognosticator. Anyone can ...
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In This Town, They Don't Turn To Groundhogs To Make Weather Predictions; They Use Caterpillars
In North Carolina, residents and visitors of the small town Banner Elk attend the Woolly Worm Festival every year to race caterpillars and predict the year’s upcoming weather pattern based on ...
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Summer Festivals Return to Small Towns Across the Country
For more than 40 years, Banner Elk has held woolly worm races to determine the season’s official winter weather forecaster. Anyone can race a worm, and the grand prize is $1,000, plus prognosticating ...