The Woolly Bear Says The Hudson Valley Will Have This Type of Winter

Do you believe in folklore? More specifically, did someone when you were growing up, tell you to look at the Woolly Bear Caterpillars to know how bad (or good) the winter was going to be?

The first time I heard my friend talk about it, I thought he was nuts. Then I started looking into it. In fact, here is a Woolly Bear from my front yard:

So how are we supposed to use this to determine what kind of winter we are going to have? Hard to tell, but here is the legend from Almanac.com:

The Woolly Bear caterpillar has 13 distinct segments of either rusty brown or black. The wider the rusty brown sections (or the more brown segments there are), the milder the coming winter will be. The more black there is, the more severe the winter.

Ok. Looking at the above caterpillar, it looks like we are going to have a bunch of snow? Or does the fact that it still has a pretty healthy band of the rust colored fuzz, mean we are going to get a pretty mild winter?

What do you think?