How Much Snow Will We Get in New England This Winter? Here's What Science and the Almanacs Say

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Around this time each year, everyone starts wondering — and speculating — about how much snow we’ll see during the upcoming winter season. And for good reason — snowfall plays a huge role in people’s commutes, the region’s economy and our moods! Our NBC10 Boston First Alert weather team is still working on its official prediction for this winter’s snowfall….

But the almanacs can still give us some clues as to what we might expect.

This winter, it appears as though a La Niña pattern – cool water in the Pacific near the equator – will be a player in the atmosphere, encouraging milder-than-normal conditions in the Southern United States with drier-than-normal conditions particularly in the South-Central and Southwest U.S., with colder air spilling particularly into the Plains, Midwest and Great Lakes, and a clash of air resulting in an active storm path of mixed snow, ice and rain events across the Northeast.

It’s no surprise, therefore, that both the Old Farmer’s Almanac and Farmer’s Almanac reflect almost this exact weather pattern in their predictions.says it's a"Tale of Two Winters," with winter weather essentially splitting the country in two. The Northeast is expected to be very cold, and very snowy.

"The eastern half of the U.S. should brace for potentially record-breaking cold to define the season," their forecast says. Snowfall will be"greater than normal from central New England through northern North Carolina, from the Lower Great Lakes and the Ohio and Tennessee Valleys into the southern Plains, from the northern Plains into eastern Washington, and across the higher terrain of the southern Rockies and California.

Their Northeast-specific forecast says winter temperatures will be"above normal in the north," with the coldest periods in early and late January and February. They said precipitation will be above normal, but snowfall will be below normal in the north.

Source: Financial Digest (financialdigest.net)

 

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