The prognosticator from the Passagassawakeag River has predicted an early winter.
Passy Pete, a lobster pulled from the waters off Belfast, delivered his forecast Monday at Heritage Park.
The Belfast Area Chamber of Commerce, which hosted the event, said that Pete predicted an early winter. He then returned to the waters of Belfast Bay.
During the ceremony, Pete selects one of two scrolls, one bearing a poem about summer and the other one about winter. If he selects the first, we’re supposed to get six more weeks of summer, while if he selects the latter, winter will descend early.
The Bangor Daily News took a look at nearly a decade of Pete’s predictions and found he had about a 22 percent success rate. But Pete has been more successful at forecasting an early winter than a longer summer.
So enjoy these waning days of summer; they’ll be over before you know it.
