If you’re not looking forward to winter, good news, the National Weather Service is predicting the U.S. will generally have a milder winter. Forecasters predict a warm, wet winter for much of the South, with mild and dry weather expected across much of the West and some parts of the North.
The predictions are based heavily on the expected formation of the El Niño Southern Oscillation, or a periodic variation in winds and sea surface temperatures in the central and eastern equatorial Pacific. Mike Halpert, deputy director of NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center said in a news release that above average temperatures due to El Niño are most likely in the Pacific Northwest. The report does not make predictions on snowfall, as predicting snowstorms is very difficult.
