New Almanac Forecasts La Niña Fueled "Wicked Good Winter" for East Coast
You’ve seen winter forecasts from the Farmer’s Almanac, the Old Farmer’s Almanac, and more, but a new Almanac has recently hit the internet—Donny’s Almanac.
Created, presented, and explained by Donny Pelletier, Maine’s Finest Athlete, Donny’s Almanac uses a scientific approach for predicting the weather this upcoming winter. It’s so scientific, in fact, that it’s hard for us to explain.
Donny breaks down words like, ‘weatha’, ‘meteaolagy‘, and ‘presha‘for us laymen, shares how he thinks La Niña will affect the snow forecast out East, and more.
Crack open a can on Moxie, kick off the Bean Boots, and buckle up. According to Donny, skiers in Maine should expect, “exponential powda days” this winter. We sure hope he’s right.
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Video: Donny’s Almanac 2025
If you didn’t watch Donny’s full video explaining Donny’s Almanac 2025, I highly recommend that you do. Not only is it the best long-range weather forecast I’ve seen for the East Coast this winter, it’s by far the funniest.
For those out of the loop, Donny Pelletier has become skiing’s most popular character through years of skits, cameos, and his downright hilarious skiing technique. He’s portrayed by former Olympian Troy Murphy.
Murphy is a world-class skier in his own right, just check out his non-Donny Instagram page, but the character has taken a life of its own in recent years. Troy, dressed in Donny’s staple flannel shirt, jeans, suspenders, and NAPA hat regularly films advertisements for Sunday River, Maine and Palisades Tahoe, California. He can be spotted hosting events, speaking at ski conferences, and winning snowblade competitions throughout the season.
Donny is skiing’s favorite character, and we couldn’t get enough of his first Almanac. Here’s hoping there’s more to come.
Keep reading for our favorite quotes and predictions from Donny’s Almanac 2025.
Donny’s Almanac 2025 Forecast and Quotes
- “So you might have heard of the Farmer’s Almanac. Which is all about like predicting the weather and the effects it has on like the corn, and the potatoes, and the yield of you know how much salad we’re going to have or whatever.”
- “It’s really important to know who your sources are. And so you gotta be really careful about like who ya listenin’ to.”
- “If you was a good meteorologist you would switch ice to powda.”
- “We ain’t gonna be gettin’ no ice, we gonna be getting powda.”
- “Keith’s whole deal, right, what he’s all about, he’s a meteorologist. He’s a meteor-ologist, he studies meteors. He ain’t got no idea what’s goin’ on with the weatha. So that’s why you’re gonna come to me.”
- “Next slide.”
- “It’s just weatha. You know what I mean? It’s not that fricken complicated.”
- “So here ya got the El Niño and the La Niña chart, and you can see they got red arrows pointing to the right, and what that pretty much means is that the weatha is gonna be better in the East because it’s pointing to the right. Which, the East is on the right if you’re looking at it. And worse off on the left. Probably not going to be as much snow on the West.”
- “We’re going to really double down on tempercha.”
- “Fricken Alta, they get the alto cumulus.”
- “Exponential powda days.”
- “You can expect this winter, I’d imagine every day, every other day, it’s gonna be a powda day, so.”
- “You know, it’s really not that hard.”
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