It doesn’t seem like the long range weather forecast is any more accurate than the woolly bear caterpillar, but it isn’t a good sign if the woolly bear is carrying ice crystals on its back.
Weather Forecaster
Tonight the beacon was lit at Split Rock Lighthouse as remembrance of the sinking of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald and loss of the entire crew of 29 men during a storm on November 10, 1975 on Lake Superior. The freighter passed by this lighthouse the afternoon earlier, but it sank before reaching Whitefish Bay.
Split Rock Lighthouse