It's not unusual to find Woolly Bear Caterpillars (Pyrrharctia isabella) scurrying around in the fall, but within the past week I've seen at least a half dozen of these weather prognosticators wandering (slowly) around the neighborhood.
Some people believe the Woolly Bear can predict the Winter weather by the size of the black bands on its body. The more black bands, the worse the winter will be.
Most of the Woolly Bears I've found this week had more brown than black.
Occasionally there is a statistical outlier in the sample data.
