Better than the hurricane forecast...

After the embarrassing miss on the 2007 hurricane season, some forecasters are looking for better methodology.

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." [More]

Must-not-tell-"gut-feeling"-joke...

[via Arbroath]