State Capital Highlights

By Gary Borders

Farmer’s Almanac predicting a white winter

As Texas gets at least a temporary reprieve this week from the heat, with a nice round of rain blanketing much of the state, the Old Farmer’s Almanac is predicting January will bring significant snowfall to the state.

The periodical, founded in 1818,  develops its extended forecast “using a 204-year-old mathematical formula focused on sunspot acti…