Move over, Dr. Sprudgely. Paul the Octopus, a two-year-old common octopus who has catapulted to international fame by correctly predicting all of Germany’s 2010 World Cup results, has thrown all 8 of his hats into the ring of international coffee premonition. According to Paul, Brazil’s coffee-producing regions will be free of crop-killing frost this July, the most important month in the Brazilian coffee calendar. Paul’s predictions have been bolstered by the Sao Paolo-based forecasting agency Somar Meteorolgia. From Marco Antonio dos Santos, an agrimeteorologist with inside knowledge of Paul’s Cephalopodic wavelengths:
“There is just one polar mass coming to Brazil this month, and it won’t make it to coffee producing areas. Futhermore, I for one trust wholeheartedly the remarkably accurate soothsaying of Paul the Octopus, seer of the deep sea. Thanks to Paul, there will be a joyous harvest in Sul de Minas, Mogiana, and Matas de Minas this July.”
You can read more about the agrimeteorological sabermetrics of growth to frost ratios at Business Week Online
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