Last week’s results:

Asked where we ought to spend the New Year’s Eve ball drop, Stormy and the Farmers’ Alamanc agreed: Inside. Both predicted cold weather.

Both missed the mark.

According to Weather Underground, New York City recorded a low of 36 degrees, a balmy eight degrees warmer than the average low for Dec. 31.

Can we take the kids (or the kits) outside for sledding or skiing this week?

 The choices:

a)  have fun, sunny

b) bundle up, cold and windy

 c) stay home and drink hot chocolate, stormy

The Farmers’ Almanac says:  no, stormy though Friday

Stormy’s Furcast: stormy, stay home and drink hot chocolate

Stormy’s Furcast is a winter-long series testing the weather predictions of the good-natured folks at the nearly-200-year-old Farmers’ Almanac against an equally good-natured fox who lives at the Maine Wildlife Park in Gray. The almanac is based on science and secret formulas. The fox makes her pick choosing from three piles of food. Each week, a new question and the previous week’s results. May the best forecaster, or furcaster, win.