The U.S. Is in for a Warm, Wet Winter With El Niño

Temperatures are at the moment cooling down throughout the U.S., however a lot of the nation is in for a hotter, wetter winter than regular, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration stated on this 12 months’s winter outlook.

This has been an El Niño formation 12 months, and now that the boy is again on the town, NOAA has forecast that a lot of the northern half of the contiguous U.S. goes to see above-average winter temperatures. The decrease half of the nation is a coin toss, with equal probabilities of barely beneath regular, close to regular, or barely above regular temperatures this winter.

NOAA has additionally forecast above-average precipitation from December to February. A number of the decrease half of the nation and up the East Coast into New England is more likely to expertise further rain and snow. This is nice for among the particularly dry situations all through the nation—a couple of third of the U.S. is at the moment experiencing drought, according to the U.S. Drought Monitor.

“An enhanced southern jet stream and associated moisture often present during strong El Nino events supports high odds for above-average precipitation for the Gulf Coast, lower Mississippi Valley and Southeast states this winter,” Jon Gottschalck, chief of the Operational Prediction Branch of the Climate Prediction Center, stated in a press release.

Some areas usually tend to see chilly winter rain than a whole lot of snow piling up. But this doesn’t imply no snow in any respect. States throughout the Northeast may nonetheless expertise a few nor’easters this winter. “With the right timing, these storms can really explode off the East Coast,” Gottschalck told CNN.

Some states are more likely to buck the development, although. Parts Central Great Lakes area and the Northern Rockies are predicted to expertise below-average precipitation.

This 12 months’s winter outlook is a bit totally different from final 12 months’s, the place a lot of the decrease half of the U.S. was anticipated to see much less precipitation and had forecast a dry winter. The then-widespread drought was predicted to proceed, till a collection of winter storms hitting the California coast dropped sufficient rain and snow to break snowpack data.

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